...invented by [[Mohamed M. Atalla]] and [[Dawon Kahng]] at [[Bell Labs]] in 1959, and first presented in 1960. It is the basic building block of modern elec ...hamed M. Atalla]] invented the [[MOSFET]] (MOS field-effect transistor) in 1959]]

...the [[planar process]] (1958) and [[monolithic integrated circuit]] chip (1959). He later proposed the [[MOS integrated circuit]] (1960).]] ...nbsp;junction: US patent 3029366, granted on 10 April 1962, filed 22 April 1959. Robert Noyce acknowledges Lehovec in his article "Microelectronics", ''[[S