microelectronicsn.

1959 Science 13 Nov. 1345/2 DOFL has spawned ‘microelectronics’, the shrinking of electronic assemblies to 1/100 normal size.

1960 K. Amis New Maps of Hell (1961) i. 19 Even if the problem of fitting all that machinery into a container on the human scale would require the development of a kind of micro-electronics that for the time being, one would imagine, is at a rudimentary stage [etc.].

1967 New Scientist 11 May 342/2 Complete radio and TV sets have been built experimentally with 90 per cent microelectronics.

1967 New Scientist 11 May 342/3 There are..practical difficulties in packaging microelectronics in order to make the best use of their inherently high reliability.

1970 Daily Tel. 8 May 21 Microelectronics, developed for American space and military hardware, is a way of miniaturising large circuits so that up to 100 transistors and associated components take up no more space than a pinhead.

1974 Nature 8 Feb. 338/2 Every week seems to bring a new idea for making use of ion implants in microelectronics.

1985 Listener 21 Feb. 38/1 Britain's relatively new and commercially inexperienced consumer microelectronics industry has been notorious for believing its own rhetoric—often promising much and delivering late.

1994 Amer. Spectator June 21/2 Decontrolling this last item alone gave the Soviets the ability to produce microelectronics more advanced than those deployed by American forces in the Gulf War.