He holds 14 U.S. patents and has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers, in addition to coauthoring Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices with Tak Ning, spanning three editions released in 1998, 2009, and 2022.
[6] From 1979 to 1981, Taur held an appointment at Rockwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California, focusing on II-VI semiconductor devices for infrared sensor applications.
Following this, from 1981 to 2001, he served in the Silicon Technology Department at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, holding the position of Manager of Exploratory Devices and Processes.
[7] He investigated issues like avoiding CMOS latch-up, minimizing parasitic series resistance, gate work function for surface-channel pMOS, and shallow trench isolation process for achieving higher packing density.
[8] In addition, he wrote an article on the limits to CMOS transistor scaling, listing factors like quantum mechanical tunneling through thin insulating layers, short-channel effect, standby power dissipation caused by injection of thermal electrons over a potential barrier.