11 Facts About Chih-Tang Sah

Chih-Tang "Tom" Sah is a Chinese-American electronics engineer and condensed matter physicist.

Chih-Tang Sah is best known for inventing CMOS logic with Frank Wanlass at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963.

Chih-Tang Sah was the Pittman Eminent Scholar and a Graduate Research Professor at the University of Florida from 1988 to 2010.

Chih-Tang Sah 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.

Chih-Tang Sah has published more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles with his graduate students and research associates, and presented about 200 invited lectures and 60 contributed papers in China, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and in the United States on transistor physics, technology and evolution.

Chih-Tang Sah wrote a three-volume textbook titled Fundamentals of Solid State Electronics.

Chih-Tang Sah's father Pen-Tung Sah was a founding academician of Academia Sinica of China and served as president of Xiamen University and Secretary General of Academia Sinica of China.

Chih-Tang Sah had a younger brother Chih-Han Chih-Tang Sah who was a mathematician and professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

In 1963, Chih-Tang Sah invented the CMOS semiconductor device fabrication process with Frank Wanlass at Fairchild.

Chih-Tang Sah was the founding editor of the International Series on the Advances in Solid State Electronics and Technology which has published three titles by invited authors and eight monographs by invited authors on compact modelling of devices for computer aided design of integrated circuits, all with the World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore.

Chih-Tang Sah was appointed an Honorary Professor of Tsinghua University, Peking University and Xiamen University of China.