Chih-Tang Sah

The native form of this personal name is Sah Chih-Tang. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Chih-Tang Sah
BornNovember 1932 (1932-11) (age 92)
Beijing, China
Alma materStanford University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Known forComplementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
Scientific career
FieldsEngineering and Physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1962-1988)

University of Florida (1988-2010)

Xiamen University (2010- )

Chih-Tang "Tom" Sah (simplified Chinese: 萨支唐; traditional Chinese: 薩支唐; pinyin: Sà Zhītáng; born in November 1932 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese-American electronics engineer and condensed matter physicist. He is best known for inventing CMOS (complementary MOS) logic with Frank Wanlass at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963.[1] CMOS is used in nearly all modern very large-scale integration (VLSI) semiconductor devices.[2]

He was the Pittman Eminent Scholar[3] and a Graduate Research Professor at the University of Florida from 1988 to 2010. He was a Professor of Physics and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, emeritus, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he taught for 26 years (1962-1988) and guided 40 students to the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and in physics and 34 MSEE theses. At the University of Florida, he guided 10 doctoral theses in EE. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles with his graduate students and research associates, and presented about 200 invited lectures and 60 contributed papers in China, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and in the United States on transistor physics, technology and evolution.[4][5]

He wrote a three-volume textbook titled Fundamentals of Solid State Electronics (FSSE, 1991). FSSE was translated into Chinese in 2003.

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  3. ^ University of Florida Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Archived November 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Fundamentals of Solid-State Electronics, Chih-Tang Sah. World Scientific, first published 1991, reprinted 1992, 1993 (pbk), 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2006, ISBN 981-02-0637-2. -- ISBN 981-02-0638-0 (pbk).
  5. ^ Accuracy of Long-Wide Channel Thick-Base MOS Transistor Models, B.B. Jie and Chih-Tang Sah, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol.54, no.8, August 2007.