Semiconductor devices and technology

Al F. Tasch Jr.

Al F. Tasch Jr. (1941–2004) was an American semiconductor engineer at Texas Instruments, Motorola, and UT Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Alan L. McWhorter

Alan Louis McWhorter (1930–2018) was an American electrical engineer known for the McWhorter model of 1/f noise and for leading MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Solid State Division.

Andrew Grove

Andrew Grove, also known as Andy Grove and born András István Gróf, was a Hungarian-born American engineer who was Intel's first hire and led it as CEO from 1987.

Andrew H. Bobeck

Andrew H. Bobeck was an American engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who co-invented magnetic bubble memory, a solid-state computer memory, and held more than 120 United States patents.

Angel G. Jordan

Angel G. Jordan (Angel Jordán Goñi) was a Spanish-born American electrical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, provost from 1983 to 1991 and a 1986 National Academy of Engineering member.

Antoine Kahn is an electrical engineer and named professor at Princeton University who studies semiconductor surfaces and interfaces, including organic and perovskite materials for LEDs and solar cells.

Arthur G. Anderson

Arthur G. Anderson is an engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975, one of the earliest IBM computer scientists to receive the distinction.

Ben G. Streetman

Ben G. Streetman is an American semiconductor engineer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of the textbook Solid State Electronic Devices.

Bijan Davari

Bijan Davari is an electrical engineer at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center known for CMOS device scaling and shallow-trench isolation, appointed an IBM Fellow in 1996.

Bruce Edward Gnade

Bruce Edward Gnade is an American materials scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Burn-Jeng Lin

Burn-Jeng Lin (林本堅, born 1942) is a Taiwanese-American optical lithography researcher known as the father of immersion lithography, the technique that underpins most advanced semiconductor manufacturing today.

Chang Chun-Yen

Chang Chun-Yen (张俊彦) was a Taiwanese electrical engineer and semiconductor pioneer who created Taiwan's first integrated circuit and served as president of National Chiao Tung University.

Chih-Tang Sah

Chih-Tang Sah (萨支唐, 1932–2025) was a Chinese-born American engineer who co-invented the CMOS circuit with Frank Wanlass in 1963, the technology behind nearly all integrated circuits.

Dale L. Critchlow

Dale L. Critchlow was an American semiconductor engineer at IBM whose work on MOSFET scaling and DRAM technology earned him election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Dawon Kahng

Dawon Kahng (강대원) was a Korean-born electrical engineer at Bell Labs who co-invented the MOSFET in 1960 and the floating-gate cell behind flash memory in 1967.

Dimitri A. Antoniadis

Dimitri A. Antoniadis is a Greek-born electrical engineer and emeritus MIT professor known for pioneering contributions to MOSFETs and silicon process modeling, including the SUPREM simulators.

Domenic Forte

Domenic Forte is an American electrical engineer and professor at the University of Florida whose research covers hardware security, counterfeit integrated circuits, hardware Trojans, and supply-chain integrity.

Douglas C.H. Yu

Douglas C.H. Yu, also known as Chen-Hua Yu or Doug Yu, is a Taiwanese semiconductor engineer who spent 1994 to 2025 at TSMC creating the 3DFabric advanced packaging platform.

Dwight C. Streit

Dwight C. Streit is an American electrical engineer at UCLA known for heterojunction transistors and millimeter-wave circuits, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.

Elaheh Ahmadi

Elaheh Ahmadi is an electrical engineer and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara who works on gallium nitride transistors and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Eric Fossum

Eric Fossum is an American engineer who invented the CMOS active pixel image sensor, the camera-on-a-chip in nearly every smartphone, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early 1990s.

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Erich Bloch

Erich Bloch (1925–2016) was a German-born American electrical engineer who managed IBM's Stretch supercomputer and System/360, then directed the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1990.

Eugene S. Meieran

Eugene S. Meieran is an American semiconductor manufacturing engineer who spent 36 years at Intel and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

Frederick H. Dill

Frederick H. "Rick" Dill is an American electrical engineer and IBM researcher known for founding the scientific modeling of photolithography, the Dill Parameters, and video RAM.

Frederik Sangster

Frederik Sangster (Frederik Leonard Johan Sangster) is a Dutch Philips researcher in Eindhoven credited with patenting the bucket brigade device, an analog shift register, with Kees Teer.

Geoffrey Dummer

Geoffrey Dummer (1909–2002) was a British electronics engineer at the Royal Radar Establishment who in 1952 published the first public description of the integrated circuit, though he never built one.

George Clement Dacey

George Clement Dacey (1921–2010) was an American engineer and physicist who helped build the first working field-effect transistor at Bell Labs and later led Sandia National Laboratories.

Gregory E. Stillman

Gregory E. Stillman, also known as Gregory Eugene Stillman, was an American electrical engineer and semiconductor researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.

H.‐S. Philip Wong

H.-S. Philip Wong is a Stanford electrical engineering professor who works on nanoscale semiconductor devices, solid-state memory, and carbon nanotube electronics, after 16 years at IBM.