History of semiconductors diffusion engineering

The author presents a personal view of the history of semiconductor diffusion engineering. Starting with the announcement of a new invention in 1948 - the transistor - he goes on to include the applications of diffusion transistors at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Western Electric, Shockley and Fairchild, and integrated circuits at Fairchild, Texas Instruments and Sylvania. He concludes with a discussion of commercially available diffusion furnaces 1960-1965.