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Sorab (Soli) K. Ghandhi
The Birth of the Journal
How IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits came to be
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e are now celebrating the
50th anniversary of IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits. Since I was one of the founding
fathers of this publication, I was asked
by Dr. Rakesh Kumar to comment about
its birth.
There is much to be learned from
the past, so I am pleased to write this
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historical note on the birth of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, starting with
the transistor that inspired its publication. In 1947, Bell Laboratories invented
the transistor, and many companies
made sporadic attempts to exploit this
device. However, its performance limitations (10-kHz gain-bandwidth product and a 10-mW power level) made
them give up. In fact, many of the early
papers had titles such as "Tubes versus Transistors." On the other hand,
the General Electric Company (GE)
had developed a new structure which
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promised a 20-fold increase in operating power and decided on a long-term
commitment to use these transistors.
I was one of the first hires for this
area, and joined the GE Electronics Laboratory on 15 July 1951, freshly armed
with a Ph.D. degree from the University
of Illinois. In those days, the hiring of
professionals was made on the basis
of their academic records, as opposed
to their area of specialization. My dissertation was on microwave tubes,
but I was assigned to work in the new
field of transistor circuits. At that time,
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