TPC review

The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) was invented by David Nygren 30 years ago. TPCs have been used as trackers in many particle and heavy ion physics experiments. There are also TPC projects for non-accelerator experiments such as double-beta decay and dark-matter searches. After a presentation of the original idea of the TPC, and the advantages of such a detector, the R&D for the TPC proposed for the future International Linear Collider will be reviewed. This work is being carried out by the LC-TPC collaboration formed recently by several labs from all over the world.