Title :
Trailblazers in Solid-State Electronics [Historical]
Author :
Guarnieri, Massimo
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;
Journal_Title :
Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIE.2011.943016
