Chih-Tang Sah
Chih -Tang Sah (Chinese萨 支 唐, Pinyin Sà Zhitang called Tom Saw, born November 10, 1932 in Beijing) is a Chinese- American physicist and electrical engineer.
Life and work
Saw is the son of the physicist and former president of Xiamen University ( and member of the Academia Sinica ) Pen -Tung Sah. Looked studied Electrical Engineering and Physics Engineering (Bachelor of Science, 1953) at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign ( UIUC ) and Stanford University ( Master of Science, 1954), where he received his doctorate in 1956 with Karl Spangenberg (via traveling wave tubes ). After that he went (founded by disgruntled former employees in Shockley's company as Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce ), where he was until 1965 and the physics department headed into the developing microelectronics industry in California to William B. Shockley and 1959 Fairchild Semiconductor in Palo Alto. Already 1962/63 he taught at UIUC, where he became in 1964 professor of physics and electrical engineering. In 1988 he retired and moved to the University of Florida.
In Shockley he was with Robert Noyce and Shockley in 1957 the author of a classic work on the electron-hole recombination in pn transitions and 1959 on a basic process engineering - the planar technology, invented by Jean Hoerni - for the subsequent production of the first integrated circuits. At Fairchild he led the development of the technology for the first generation of industrial production of MOS transistors and integrated circuits. In Fairchild then the CMOS technology was invented in 1963 by Frank Wanlass. Looked at that time also developed MOS transistor models (which were used in the software SPICE).
He is author and co- author of over 250 scientific papers and had about 50 students.
He was the founding editor in 1991 of Advances in Solid State Electronics and Technology ( ASSET ) by World Scientific.
He has received numerous awards, including the JJ Ebers Award and the Jack Morton Award from the IEEE ( 1969) and the Certificate of Merit of the Franklin Institute. He is an honorary doctor of ChiaoTung University in Taiwan and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and has an honorary professorship at the University of Tsinghua, Beijing and Xiamen in China. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the Franklin Institute and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. In 1998 he received the award for the Semiconductor Industry Association University Research.
Writings
- Fundamentals of Solid- State Electronics. World Scientific, 1991, ISBN 981-02-0638-0.