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Several months later, I was
named manager of the Computer Device Development Department. Reporting to
me then were Israel Kalish, Richard Pinto, Dr. Henry Kressel, Dr. Hal
Veloric, Dr. Richard Glicksman, and several others. Within a period of a
few years thereafter, we succeeded in developing a series of germanium and
silicon transistors with ever-increasing high frequency and high speed
switching response characteristics.
My further jobs at RCA were as
manager of, respectively, the Special Product Development Dept., Advanced
Development and Device Physics Dept., Power Technology Dept. at the Solid
State Technology Center, and as consultant to the David Sarnoff Research
Center (now Sarnoff Corp., but then a part of RCA Laboratories). During my
years at RCA I was involved in the development and study of small signal
transistors, power transistors, thyristors, integrated circuits, tunnel and
varactor diodes, electroluminescent devices, liquid crystal devices,
alphanumeric displays, silicon mosaic targets for television camera tubes,
and various other devices.
I hold a number of US patents,
among them the "High Voltage Power Transistor," which made
possible the electronic ignition systems of present-day automobile engines.
In 1976, Springer-Verlag
published my book “Thyristor Physics”, and in 1981 Academic Press published
another book of mine, “Field Effect and Bipolar Transistor Physics”.
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