Biography:Dawon Kahng
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| Fields | Science; scholarship |
| Known for | Dawon Kahng (Korean: 강대원; May 4, 1931 – May 13, 1992) was a Korean-American electrical engineer and inventor, known for his work in solid-state electronics. |
Dawon Kahng is a biographical subject in the ScholarlyWiki science collection. Dawon Kahng (Korean: 강대원; May 4, 1931 – May 13, 1992) was a Korean-American electrical engineer and inventor, known for his work in solid-state electronics. He is best known for inventing the MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor, or MOS transistor), along with his colleague Mohamed Atalla, in 1959.[1]
Work and context
Kahng and Atalla developed both the PMOS and NMOS processes for MOSFET semiconductor device fabrication. The MOSFET is the most widely used type of transistor, and the basic element in most modern electronic equipment.
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References
- ↑ "Dawon Kahng". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawon_Kahng.
External links
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