Semiconductor diodes ' nonlinear current – voltage characteristic can be tailored by varying the semiconductor materials and introducing impurities into ( doping ) the materials.

( In German ) An English translation can be found in " Semiconductor Devices: Pioneering Papers ", edited by S. M.

Semiconductor lasers are typically very small, and can be pumped with a simple electric current, enabling them to be used in consumer devices such as compact disc players.

Semiconductor materials are useful because their behavior can be manipulated by the addition of impurities, known as doping.

Semiconductor detectors can be made in radial segments that can be switched in or out to control the type of contrast produced and its directionality.

Semiconductor materials are so useful because their behavior can be easily manipulated by the addition of impurities, known as doping.

Multimode helium-neon lasers have a typical coherence length of 20 cm, while the coherence length of singlemode ones can exceed 100 m. Semiconductor lasers reach some 100 m. Singlemode fiber lasers with linewidths of a few kHz can have coherence lengths exceeding 100 km.

Although the application note is for a specialty IC, serviceable pH meters can be built from any operational amplifier with a high input impedance, such as the common and inexpensive National Semiconductor TL082 or its equivalent.

Instrumentation amplifiers can be built with individual op-amps and precision resistors, but are also available in integrated circuit form from several manufacturers ( including Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor, Analog Devices, Linear Technology and Maxim Integrated Products ).

Semiconductor interfaces can be organized into three types of heterojunctions: straddling gap ( type I ), staggered gap ( type II ) or broken gap ( type III ) as seen in the figure above.

Semiconductor devices used as switches can approximate this ideal property and so most power electronic applications rely on switching devices on and off, which makes systems very efficient as very little power is wasted in the switching devices.

Semiconductor devices must be designed so that current is evenly distributed within the device across its internal junctions ( or channels ); once a " hot spot " develops, breakdown effects can rapidly destroy the device.

Semiconductor film appearance and morphology can be studied with atomic force microscopy ( AFM ) and scanning electron microscopy ( SEM ).

Semiconductor memory has the property of random access, which means that it takes the same amount of time to access any memory location, so data can be efficiently accessed in any random order.

Semiconductor memory also has much faster access times than other types of data storage ; a byte of data can be written to or read from semiconductor memory within a few nanoseconds.

Semiconductor ATE, named for testing semiconductor devices, can test a wide range of electronic devices and systems, from simple components ( resistors, capacitors, and inductors ) to integrated circuits ( ICs ), printed circuit boards ( PCBs ), and complex, completely assembled electronic systems.

Semiconductor switching devices and anti-parallel connected freewheeling diodes form a bridge, which can connect each motor phase to the positive or negative dc-link potential.

Semiconductor diodes begin conducting electricity only if a certain threshold voltage or cut-in voltage is present in the forward direction ( a state in which the diode is said to be forward-biased ).

Semiconductor rectifiers were familiar devices by the end of World War II, and Shockley hoped to produce a new device that would have a variable resistance and hence could be used as an amplifier.

Semiconductor optical amplifiers are typically made from group III-V compound semiconductors such as GaAs / AlGaAs, InP / InGaAs, InP / InGaAsP and InP / InAlGaAs, though any direct band gap semiconductors such as II-VI could conceivably be used.

The Acorn Business Computer ( ABC ) plan required a number of second processors to be made to work with the BBC Micro platform, but processors such as the Motorola 68000 and National Semiconductor 32016 were unsuitable, and the 6502 was not powerful enough for a graphics based user interface.

In 1995, Amelio was elected to be the chairman of the board of directors of National Semiconductor.

Thompson would also be President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Fairchild Semiconductor International.

Although the 7400 series was the first de facto industry standard TTL logic family to be second-sourced by several semiconductor companies, there were earlier TTL logic families such as the Sylvania SUHL ( Sylvania Universal High-level Logic ) family, Motorola MC4000 MTTL family ( not to be confused with RCA CD4000 CMOS ), the National Semiconductor DM8000 family, Fairchild 9300 series, and the Signetics 8200 family.

But Shockley's strange behavior would compel the traitorous eight to abandon him and create the Fairchild Semiconductor corporation, where Hoerni would go on to invent the planar process, which allowed transistors to be created out of silicon rather than germanium.

More recently, patented advancements in SOS processing and design have been made by Peregrine Semiconductor, allowing SOS to be commercialized in high-volume for high-performance radio-frequency ( RF ) applications.

Also, at the time of its announcement, SunGard would be the largest buyout of a technology company in history, a distinction it would cede to the buyout of Freescale Semiconductor.

Also, at the time of its announcement, SunGard would be the largest buyout of a technology company in history, a distinction it would cede to the buyout of Freescale Semiconductor.

Semiconductor devices, such as transistors, are made possible largely by putting different semiconductor dopants into different places, in specific patterns.

The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in August 1976 at the retail price of $ 169. 95.

All worked for Fairchild Semiconductor headed by Wilf Corigan a division of Fairchild Camera & Instrument.

The Commodore Semiconductor Group ( formerly MOS Technology, Inc .) was bought by its former management and in 1995, resumed operations under the name GMT Microelectronics, utilizing a troubled facility in Norristown, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.

In January 2011 a low power variant ( DECT ULE-ultra low energy ) was discussed at the DECT World and CAT-iq Conference with a whitepaper presented by Sitel ( Now Dialog ) Semiconductor.

The standard was first discussed in January 2011 and the first commercial products were launched later that year by Dialog Semiconductor.

It was an attempt to draw attention from the less-delayed 16 and 32-bit processors of other manufacturers ( such as Motorola, Zilog, and National Semiconductor ) and at the same time to counter the threat from the Zilog Z80 ( designed by former Intel employees ), which became very successful.

These devices employed compound semiconductor chips fabricated with the planar process invented by Dr. Jean Hoerni at Fairchild Semiconductor.

The original DEC StrongARM team eventually split into two MIPS-based start-ups: SiByte which produced the SB-1250, one of the first high-performance MIPS-based systems-on-a-chip ( SOC ); while Alchemy Semiconductor ( later acquired by AMD ) produced the Au-1000 SoC for low-power applications.

The Motorola 68000 is a 16 / 32-bit CISC microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor ( formerly Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector ).

Now produced by Freescale Semiconductor, it descended from the Motorola 6800 microprocessor.

MOS Technology, Inc. (" MOS " being short for Metal Oxide Semiconductor ) was originally started in 1969 by Allen-Bradley to provide a second source for Texas Instruments ( TI ) designed electronic calculators and the chips inside them.

After Commodore's bankruptcy in 1994, Commodore Semiconductor Group, MOS's successor, was bought by its former management for about $ 4. 3 million, plus an additional $ 1 million to cover miscellaneous expenses including EPA liens.

In 1963, the first monolithic IC op-amp, the μA702 designed by Bob Widlar at Fairchild Semiconductor, was released.

During 1955-85, solid state technology research and development at Stanford University followed three waves of industrial innovation made possible by support from private corporations, mainly Bell Telephone Laboratories, Shockley Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Xerox PARC.

The part was originally made by National Semiconductor.

Similarly numbered devices, with varying levels of compatibility with the original National Semiconductor part, are made by other manufacturers.

The current version ( since 1995 ) by National Semiconductor is called the 16550D.

These integrated circuits were supplied by Fairchild Semiconductor and Motorola.