John L. Moll

John Lewis Moll ( born December 21, 1921 in Wauseon, Ohio; † July 19, 2011 in Palo Alto, California ) was an American electrical engineer.

His parents were Mennonites and farmers. He studied at Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1943 and was 1944/45. At the RCA Laboratories in Lancaster In 1952 he received his doctorate at Ohio State University in electrical engineering. From 1952 to 1958 he led a research group in semiconductor technology at Bell Laboratories. There they saw the advantage of silicon as a semiconductor material, and it emerged techniques such as silicon dioxide masking, doping via gas diffusion, semiconductor-metal contacts. From 1958 to 1972 he was a professor at Stanford University. From 1970 he worked at Fairchild Semiconductor and 1974 until his retirement in 1996 at Hewlett -Packard.

He is known for the Ebers - Moll equations and the Ebers - Moll transistor model .. They are named after addition Jewell James Ebers. Ebers and Moll contributed the mid-1950s also pioneered the development of the thyristor ( realization as a PNPN structure in 1956 by Moll ).

He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the IEEE, the IEEE Edison Medal he received. In 1964 he was Guggenheim Fellow. In 1971 he received the IEEE Ebers Award of the Electron Devices Society and the Howard N. Potts Medal in 1967 from the Franklin Institute.

Writings

• Physics of Semiconductors, McGraw Hill 1964