Evolutions of the Transistor - Point Contact, Junction, Planar, and FET - 2N110

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About this Artwork:
This artwork celebrates the evolution of the transistor, arguably the greatest invention of the 20th century. Here the Point Contact transistor is represented by a Western Electric 2N110, the Junction by a Western Electric 8B Alloy Junction, the Planar Bipolar by a 2N2084, and the MOSFET by a Texas Instruments 2N2609. The art on the front corresponds to these transistors. The back of the artwork contains diagrams and narrative that explains how these transistors worked.
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented the Point Contact transistor at AT&T's Bell Laboratories in 1947. The transistor was not announced until 1948, and it took a couple more years to create commercially producible and stable transistors. By the mid-1950s, the yearly production of transistors was only in the thousands; today, it is in the billions of billions. The first transistor, the Point Contact transistor, was based on germanium, not silicon. Transistor technology moved from germanium to silicon. Point Contacts were replaced by grown junction crystals, and then photolithography-built flat chips. And the transistor switching techniques moved from blocking to field-effect squeezing. Each type of transistor was a quantum leap over the others.
Framing:
The artwork is framed in an 11"x14" black shadow box frame, with glass. All framing materials are acid free. A narrative about the artwork that includes the artist’s signature is placed on the back of the artwork.
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