Kurt Lehovec
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Kurt Lehovec is one of the pioneers of the integrated circuit, 1959. He innovated the concept of p-n junction isolation used in every circuit element with a guard ring: a p-n junction surrounding the planar periphery of that element. This patent was assigned to Sprague Electric. [1][2]
Lehovec was born June 12, 1918 in Ledvice, in northern Bohemia, of the Czech Republic. He was educated there and came to the US in 1947 under the auspices of Operation Paperclip [3] which allowed scientists and engineers to emigrate. With Accardo and Jamgochian, he explained the first light-emitting diodes. [4]
Lehovec is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California and currently lives in Southern California. After retirement from USC Lehovec has taken to writing poetry.[5]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Kurt Lehovec, U.S. Patent 3029366 awarded on April 10, 1962, filed April 22, 1959.
- ^ Robert Noyce credits Lehovec in his article – "Microelectronics", Scientific American, September 1977, Volume 23, Number 3, pp. 63–9.
- ^ Kurt Lehovec's Professional Career
- ^ K. Lehovec, C. A. Accardo, AND E. Jamgochian, "Injected Light Emission of Silicon Carbide Crystals", The Physical Review 83, #3, 603-607 August 1, 1951
- ^ Some of Lehovec's poetry
