Jean Hoerni was born on this day in 1924. He grew up in Switzerland and went on to receive a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge and another from the University of Geneva in his hometown. He was silicon transistor pioneer and is famous for creating the Plantar Process.
In this process, pieces of a transistor are created separately and then placed together in a way that creates an integrated circuit. The use of silicon dioxide oxidation binds the transistor without the need to do it by hand. This is important because it allowed these transistors to be made out of silicon rather than germanium. Silicon can hold more information than the previously used germanium.
Jean Hoerni is important in today’s electronic era because the Plantar Process is still used today in the computers we use. It stores the information we need in a way that is smaller and more compact than what could’ve been imagined.
Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hoerni
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar_process
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