Chih-Tang Sah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Chih-Tang Sah

American engineer

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1932

Place of Birth: Beijing, China

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Chih-Tang "Tom" Sah (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Sà Zhitáng; born in November 1932 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese-American engineer.
He is best known for inventing CMOS (complementary MOS) logic with Frank Wanlass at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963.
CMOS is now used in nearly all modern very large-scale integration (VLSI) semiconductor devices.He is the Pittman Eminent Scholar and a Graduate Research Professor at the University of Florida from 1988.
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 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 about 280 journal articles and presented about 170 invited lectures and 60 contributed papers in China, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and in the United States on transistor physics, technology and evolution.He wrote a three-volume textbook titled Fundamentals of Solid State Electronics (FSSE 1991), FSSE-Study Guide (1993) and FSSE-Solution Manual (1996).
The latter included 100 pages of exposition on Transistor Reliability.
FSSE was translated into Chinese in 2003.