Academician Hung-Chang Lin passed away in Maryland, USA at age of 90. The memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 14 at 2:00 p.m. at Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home (11800 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20904, (301) 622-2290).

Dr. Lin received B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Chiaotung University in China in 1941, M. S. E. from the University of Michigan in 1948, and Doctor of Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1956. Since 1969, Dr. Lin has been a Professor at the University of Maryland. He retired in 1990, and has since served as Professor Emeritus.

From 1948 to 1956, he was a research engineer at RCA Laboratories, and one of the first scientists working on transistor circuit development. His industrial experience also included doing R and D work on integrated circuits at Columbia Broadcasting Systems and Westinghouse Electric Corporation

His most significant contribution is the invention of the lateral transistor which is used in most linear integrated circuits and digital integrated circuits. His early study of the temperature ap 15500 replica effects led to the use of diode compensation configuration which is now widely used in transistor amplifiers.

Dr. Lin is the holder of 57 U.S. patents, author and coauthor of 170 technical papers, author of the book Integrated Electronics, (Holden Day, 1967), co-author of three other books. In 1969, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers “for contributions to semiconductor electronics and circuits and pioneering of integrated circuits", and served as the Chairman of its Linear Integrated Circuits Task Group, Associate Editor of the Journal of Solid State Circuits, and Technical Program Committee member and/or session chairman in numerous International Solid State Circuits conferences and International Electron Devices meetings. In 1978, he was the recipient of J. J. Ebers Award of IEEE Electron Devices Society for outstanding contribution to electron devices (the invention of lateral transistor). In 1990, he was inducted into the Clark School of Engineering Innovation Hall of Fame of Maryland University in recognition of his significant inventions and contributions in semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. In 2000, he was elected to be an Academician of the Academia Sinica.