Engineering · Electronics & Embedded Systems
A topic within Electronics & Embedded Systems, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
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Tony R. Kuphaldt
Builds diode and transistor behaviour up from solid-state intuition — depletion regions, carrier flow — rather than from datasheet equations, aiming to give a newcomer the same working model an engineer carries.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Jack S. Kilby
Recounts building the first working integrated circuit by fabricating every component of an electronic circuit from a single piece of semiconductor, arguing the decisive step was refusing to assume that resistors and capacitors had to be separate discrete parts.