FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Alan Amron has invented a battery-powered squirt gun, a digital photo frame, even a laser system that may someday provide a visible first-down line for fans inside NFL ...

VideoThe new American Experience documentary 'Silicon Valley' looks at the 'Traitorous Eight,' who left Shockley to form Fairchild Semiconductor and give birth to today's Silicon Valley.

“The various historical records say that the transistor was invented Dec. 23, 1947 at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories by scientists William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain.

Todd S. Purdum's biography explores the impact on American culture by the Cuban-born entertainer who (as husband and business partner of Lucille Ball) changed the rules of TV.

In November 1969, the US court dealing with patent appeals ruled that the IC had been invented by Noyce. Three years before the 1969 ruling, TI and Fairchild had agreed to cross-licence their IC ...

Where this goes next is anyone’s guess. Nobel Prizes typically go to the people who invented technology, which was patented on June 25, 1974 as the first blue-violet light-emitting diode. In this case ...

The prize has gone to three semiconductor physicists who invented the blue LED (light emitting diode). Their invention has transformed the way we light our world, watch movies and store data.

In that process, though, he did create that little semiconductor light. It was red, a signature of gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP), the alloy Holonyak had layered into the diode.

Teranishi invented the pinned photodiode (PPD) in 1980, while at the NEC Corporation in Japan. The PPD is a type of semiconductor that made it possible to capture images of higher quality.

Researchers have invented a new way to align 3D semiconductor chips by shining a laser through concentric metalenses patterned on the chips to produce a hologram. Their work can help to lower the ...

Morgan Sparks, who led Sandia National Laboratories for nearly a decade and invented a semiconductor device that has revolutionized almost every aspect of modern life, has died. He was 91.