The Transistor and the Birth of Solid State Electronics
In December 1947, in a sixth-floor laboratory at 463 West Street in Manhattan, two physicists at Bell Telephone Laboratories built a small device out…
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The Transistor
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, the active element of every electronic circuit was a glass-and-metal vacuum tube: a heated…
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Lithium-Ion and Beyond
The lithium-ion battery is the most important energy-storage technology of the twenty-first century. It powers the phones in our pockets, the laptops on our…
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