EARLY TRANSISTOR
HISTORY AT RCA
H. C. Lin
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Dr. Lin’s pioneering work on the quasi-complementary audio amplifier
is illustrated by the two scans on this page. To the left is a section of his original patent, developed while
he was still at the RCA ISL lab. As
can be seen from the patent drawing, the two output transistors are both PNP,
with the driver transistors connected as a complementary symmetry pair (NPN
and PNP). The circuit above is from
the text “Handbook of Semiconductor Circuits” and was credited to Dr. Lin
when he was employed at CBS/Hytron.
This same circuit also appeared in the September 1956 issue of
Electronics magazine. This practical
and elegant design by Dr. Lin continues to be used today. Its development can be traced back to the
work done by Dr. Lin at ISL over 50 years ago when he was experimenting with
some of the first power transistors ever made.
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