Abstract
Joseph Lucas (Electrical) Ltd won the Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement in 1967 in recognition of pioneer development work on high-voltage transistors for use in petrol-engine ignition systems. Ths use of semiconductor technology, in the form of high-voltage transistors, provided an electronic switch which was capable of performing the function previously achieved using mechanically operated contact-breaker points. This electronic switch enabled the company to upgrade the performance of an established product through the use of a new component.
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Nockolds, Lucas: The First Hundred Years, vol. 2.
Some background to this section appears in a case-study of Lucas’s semiconductor activities in Scibberas, Multinational Electronics Companies.
The actual design used involved a double diffused epitaxial collector with emitter/base junction planar and collection/base junction either planar or mesa in construction.
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© 1986 Luke Georghiou, J. Stanley Metcalfe, Michael Gibbons, Tim Ray and Janet Evans
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Georghiou, L., Metcalfe, J.S., Gibbons, M., Ray, T., Evans, J. (1986). The Lucas Electrical Company: High-Voltage Transistors. In: Post-Innovation Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07455-6_25
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