Hung-Chang Lin

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Hung Chang Lin (Jimmy Lin) (born August 8, 1919) is a Chinese-American Inventor who currently resides in Maryland.

Hung C. Lin holds 61 U.S. patents. Among his inventions are the quasi-complementary amplifier which is used in mast commercial audio amplifiers. Another of his inventions is the lateral transistor which is used in linear integrated circuits and T2L digital integrated circuits. He also invented the wireless microphone.

He has published more than 170 professional papers mostly on transistors and integrated circuits.

In 1941 he received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Chiaotung University in Shanghai, China. In 1948 he received the M.S. degree from the University of Michigan. In 1956 he received the Doctor of Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. In 1978 he was presented with the JJ Ebers Award from the IEEE. In 2000 he was elected to be academacien of Academia Sinica.