Chih-Tang Sah

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Chih-Tang Sah
BornNovember 1932 (1932-11) (age 91)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1962-1988)

University of Florida (1988-2010)

Xiamen University (2010- )

Chih-Tang "Tom" Sah (

semiconductor devices.[2]

He was the

Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and in physics and 34 MSEE theses. At the University of Florida, he guided 10 doctoral theses in EE. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles with his graduate students and research associates, and presented about 200 invited lectures and 60 contributed papers in China, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and in the United States on transistor physics, technology and evolution.[4][5]

He wrote a three-volume textbook titled Fundamentals of Solid State Electronics (FSSE, 1991). FSSE was translated into Chinese in 2003.

Biography

Sah is a member of the distinguished Fuzhou Sah Family, descendants of the prominent

State University of New York at Stony Brook.[7]

Sah received two

Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1954 and 1956, respectively. His doctoral thesis research was on traveling-wave tubes
under the tutelage of Karl R. Spangenberg.

His industrial career in

MOS transistors and integrated circuit technology including oxide masking for impurity diffusion, stable Si MOS transistor, the CMOS
circuit, origin of the low-frequency noise, the MOS transistor model used in the first circuit simulator, thin film integrated resistance and Si epitaxy process for bipolar integrated circuit production.

After the

VLSI devices.[2]

He was the founding editor (1991) of the International Series on the Advances in Solid State Electronics and Technology (ASSET) which has published three titles by invited authors (1990s) and eight monographs (2007–2013) by invited authors on compact modelling of devices for computer aided design of integrated circuits, all with the

nanometer
MOS integrated circuits. Since 2013, he has been studying condensed matter physics with his young colleague Bin Bin Jie, specifically water physics.

For contributions in transistor physics and technology, he received the Browder H. Thomson best paper Prize (IRE-1962) for an author under 30, the

University of Leuven, Belgium (1975) and the Honorary Doctorate from Chiaotung University, Taiwan
, R.O.C. (2004), and the National Honorary Doctorate of China (2010) nominated by Xiamen University. He was also the recipient of the celebrated member of the IEEE Electron Device Society (2012).

He was listed in a survey by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the world's 1000 most cited scientists during 1963-1978. He is a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Franklin Institute and the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (1986), the Academia Sinica in Taipei (1998) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (2000). He was appointed an Honorary Professor of Tsinghua University (2003), Peking University (2003) and Xiamen University (2004) of China.

Honors and awards

  • 2012 – Celebrated Member of the IEEE Electron Device Society.
  • 2010 – National Honorary Doctorate of China nominated by Xiamen University.
  • 2004 – Honorary Doctorate, National Chiao-Tung University[9]
  • 2003 – Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, Chinese Institute of Engineers USA
  • 2002 – Committee-100 Pioneer Recognition Award
  • 2000 – Elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 1999 – Academician, Academia Sinica of Taipei
  • 1999 – Semiconductor Industry Association University Research Award
  • 1998 – University Research Award, U S Semiconductor Industry Association
  • 1995 – Fellow, American Association of Advanced of Science
  • 1995 – IEEE Life Fellow
  • 1994 – Alumni Achievement Award, University of Illinois
  • 1989 – IEEE Jack Morton Award
  • 1986 – Elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1986 for fundamental contributions leading to the characterization, development, and engineering of silicon diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits.[citation needed]
  • 1981 – J. J. Ebers Award, IEEE Electron Device Society
  • 1978 – 1000 World's Most Cited Scientists, 1965–1978, Institute for Scientific Information
  • 1975 – Doctoris Honoris Causa, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
  • 1975 –
    Certificate of Merit
  • 1971 – Fellow, American Physical Society
  • 1969 – Fellow, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

Patents

  • 3,204,160 – Surface Potential Controlled Semiconductor Device, August 1965
  • 3,280,391 – High Frequency Transistor, October 1966
  • 3,243,669 – Surface Potential Controlled Semiconductor Device, March 1969
  • 4,343,962 – Oxide Charge Induced High Low Junction Emitter Solar Cell, with J. G. Fossum, S. C. Pao, F. A. Lindholm, 1982
  • Patent Pending – DCIV Methodology for Rapid Determination of Reliability of Transistors.

References

  1. ^ a b "1963: Complementary MOS Circuit Configuration is Invented". Computer History Museum. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b "1978: Double-well fast CMOS SRAM (Hitachi)" (PDF). Semiconductor History Museum of Japan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  3. ^ University of Florida Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Archived November 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ISBN 981-02-0638-0
    (pbk).
  5. ^ Accuracy of Long-Wide Channel Thick-Base MOS Transistor Models, B.B. Jie and Chih-Tang Sah, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol.54, no.8, August 2007.
  6. ^ (Chinese) Pen-Tung Sah Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Peking University Health Science Campus
  7. ^ Chih-Han Sah, American Mathematical Society
  8. ^ "1960 - Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Transistor Demonstrated". The Silicon Engine. Computer History Museum.
  9. ^ "National Chiao Tung University, Honorary Doctorate, 薩支唐". www.nctu.edu.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
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