Complete the sentences below using the words from the box

Equipment invention silicon fabrication transistors discrete semiconductor germanium

1. The site includes an excellent set of links to________ manufacturers.

2. A patent is a monopoly right which protects an______ for up to 20 years.

3. The construction of components, on the micron scale, is by______ micromachining, electro deposition and thin film metal and dielectric deposition

4. _________of devices will be done in collaboration with industry.

5. According to Moore's law, the number of ______on a chip doubles every two years.

6. The circuit design uses ______ transistors, not an RF module.

7. CMOS, which stands for complementary metal oxide______, is the technology base for silicon transistors.

8. It's quite easy to set the tester up to show thermal runaway in ________transistors.

Make up questions for the following answers.

1. Dummer unsuccessfully attempted to build an integrated circuit in 1956.

2. Kilby successfully demonstrated the first working integrated circuit in 1958.

3. Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.

4. It was made of germanium.

5. By experimental discoveries.

6. Cost and performance.

7. Because the components are small and close together.