Integrated Circuits & MOSFET

Integrated Circuit (IC):
Full electronic circuit, including a transistor, on a single semiconductor substrate.

The invention of an IC is accredited both to Kilby (1958) and Noyce (1959).

The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) by Atalla and Kahng (1959) was a highly scalable, voltage based transistor.

The planar design by Noyce and the MOSFET allowed to drastically scale down IC’s.