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MOSFET: why is it called Miller plateau?

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"The Miller effect was named after John Milton Miller. When Miller published his work in 1920, he was working on vacuum tube triodes; however, the same theory applies to more modern devices such as bipolar and MOS transistors."

I'm a fan of naming things after their discoverers (or inventors)--Johnson noise, Fano bandwidth, Nyquist theorem, Fourier transform, Eccles-Jordan flip flop, Widlar/Brokaw bandgaps, Gilbert cell, Widlar/Wilson/Thompson current mirrors, .... It makes it clear to students that these things had to be invented by somebody, so maybe they could have a circuit or theorem or algorithm named after them. Inspiring, that's what it is. (*sniff sniff*)

Of course some folks are so productive that using their name isn't specific enough, e.g. calling a theorem "Gauss's" or "Euler's" doesn't narrow things down very much. ;)

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Phil Hobbs
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I wonder about Nyquist's (sampling) theorem. I've seen publications by Nyquist that state the sampling theorem in a sort-of handwaving way, but it was Shannon who nailed it rigorously and concisely.

However, neither Shannon nor Nyquist really deserve the honour. I believe the honour should go to E.T Whittaker, who came up with it in 1915, thirteen years before Nyquist even hinted at it.

Jeroen Belleman

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Jeroen Belleman

Someone noted that all the great inventors at Bell Labs in those days had one thing in common. They all had lunch with Harry Nyquist.

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jlarkin

That's the Whittaker of Whittaker & Watson, "A treatise on Bessel functions"? (Great book--helped me a lot in grad school.)

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Phil Hobbs

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs 
Principal Consultant 
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics 
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 

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Phil Hobbs

I don't think Whittaker had any involvement in Bell labs. He was a British (Scot) mathematician, professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Jeroen Belleman

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Jeroen Belleman

Brain fart. Watson wrote the one on Bessel functions, and he and Whittaker wrote "A course in modern analysis". Another great book.

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Phil Hobbs

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs 
Principal Consultant 
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics 
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 

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Phil Hobbs

That's the one, indeed. The sampling theorem, although he doesn't call it that, appears in this paper: "On the functions which are represented by the expansions of the interpolation theory", Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Sec.A, Vol.35,

1915, pp. 181?194.

A bit wordy according to current fashion, but very clear. He must have been an excellent teacher.

Jeroen Belleman

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Jeroen Belleman

Awesome. I'll have a squint at the paper. (Probably even money that Gauss invented it even earlier--he invented the FFT, after all.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics 
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 
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Phil Hobbs

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