with the 1930s invention by the Russian [Oleg Losev] of an early form of tunnel diode. But there’s an earlier amplifier technology that used a solid state circuit which is largely forgotten ...

Diodes, bipolar and field-effect transistors ... Course creates the background in the physics of the compound semiconductor-based electronic devices and also prepare students to advanced courses in ...

The demonstration of green semiconductor laser diodes with lifetimes of many thousands ... opened up the new and exciting possibility for solid-state LED lamps to replace conventional incandescent ...

Moreover, if laser diodes are to satisfy a variety of applications ranging from materials processing to pumping of solid-state lasers, medicine, printing and military work, they must produce light ...