Dawon Kahng

Dawon Kahng ( born May 4, 1931 in Keijo, sub-province Keikidō, Chosen Province, at that time the Empire of Japan, South Korea today, † 13 May 1992, New Brunswick, New Jersey) was a South Korean physicist and president of the NEC Research Institute. His inventions led to significant advances in electronics and microelectronics.

Life and work

After serving in the South Korean Marines Kahng studied physics at Seoul National University. There he earned a degree as a Bachelor of Science ( B.Sc.). Then emigrated D. Kahng 1955 in the United States to study at Ohio State University. After graduating as a Master of Science ( M.Sc.) doctorate ( Ph.D.) he. Was then in 1959 he. Employees of Bell Telephone Laboratories, now Lucent Technologies, in Murray Hill, NJ There he worked under Martin M. Atalla on the production of a silicon field -effect transistor. Together they presented in 1960 the first functional metal - oxide - semiconductor field effect transistor (MOS - FET) ago and found this before on the IRE Solid - State Device Research Conference in the same year. Also in 1960 a corresponding patent has been filed. Since then, the silicon MOS transistor has become one of the most important components in the electronics and is currently training in millions and billions of copies of the basic element of most integrated circuits.

Kahng remained until his retirement in 1988 at Bell Laboratories. There, he led and oversaw among other research groups in the field of high-frequency Schottky diodes, ferroelectric semiconductors, wide band gap semiconductors, Charge-coupled devices and flash memory. For his work Kahng has received various awards, including the Stuart Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute (1975 ) and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Ohio State University, College of Engineering. After retiring from Bell Laboratories Kahng founding president of the NEC Research Institute, the long-term basic research in the field was computer and communication technologies operates.

D. Kahng died on May 13, 1992, in St. Peter 's Hospital in New Brunswick from complications after undergoing emergency surgery for a ruptured aortic aneurysm. Kahng survived by his wife Young Hee and five children: Kim U., Vivienne, Lily, Eileen and Dwight.

Swell

  • Lee A. Daniels: Dr. Dawon Kahng, 61, Inventor In Field of Solid- State Electronics. 28 May 1992 accessed on July 6, 2010.
  • Contributors. Dawon Kahng. In: IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 23, No. 7, 1976, p 787 ( CV of Dawon Kahng ).
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