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Small-Scale Roll Coating As A Transitional Stage In The Scaling Of Organic Electronic Device Fabrication Techniques, Jared Benson
Small-Scale Roll Coating As A Transitional Stage In The Scaling Of Organic Electronic Device Fabrication Techniques, Jared Benson
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Incredible achievements have been made in the field of organic electronics in small-scale laboratory settings. A topic of increasing importance is the realization of the potential for these technologies to be applied in an industrial setting. This is a deceptively challenging process, considering that many of the procedures used to attain exceptional results in a laboratory setting are not viable for translation to larger scale fabrication efforts. Moreover, upscaling fabrication is further complicated by the enormous barrier of entry due to the expensive equipment required to fabricate organic electronics at larger scale as well as the exponentially greater quantity of …
The Invention Of The Transistor, Bret E. Crawford
The Invention Of The Transistor, Bret E. Crawford
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Julius E. Lilienfeld filed for patents for three different designs for solid-state amplifying devices between 1926 and 1928, well before Bell Lab's discovery of the point-contact transistor in 1948. The American Physical Society named a prize in honor of Lilienfeld after receiving a substantial sum of money in 1982 from the will of his wife, Beatrice Lilienfeld, who believed her husband had not received sufficient credit for his scientific contributions. In order to investigate Lilienfeld's contribution to early efforts to replace the vacuum triode, we present the history surrounding these efforts, contributions and limitations of Lilienfeld's work, and details of …