2011/12/01 by Massimo Guarnieri · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cybernetics and Technology in Society #History of Computing Technologies #Electrical and Electromagnetic Research
paper · doi:10.1109/mie.2011.943016
openalex publication_date 2011/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
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.