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.

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.

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 ...

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.