DocumentCode
1397558
Title
Trailblazers in Solid-State Electronics [Historical]
Author
Guarnieri, Massimo
Volume
5
Issue
4
fYear
2011
Firstpage
46
Lastpage
47
Abstract
The first person to investigate solid-state effects was the German physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun. It is little known that the first solid-state devices were made much earlier, even before thermionic tubes were conceived. The selenium rectifier was the first solid-state metal diode suitable for more general power uses.
Keywords
semiconductor diodes; solid-state rectifiers; selenium rectifier; solid-state device; solid-state electronics; solid-state metal diode; Electron tubes; Patents; Rectifiers; Semiconductor diodes; Transistors; Vacuum systems;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1932-4529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MIE.2011.943016
Filename
6102570
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