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Holes and electrons

OCT 01, 1950
Some new experiments in transistor electronics are described here in which concepts suggested by theory have been verified directly by experiment.
William Shockley

Recently a far more intimate and detailed view of the basic processes by which electrons carry current has been made possible by new experiments based upon the invention of the transistor.

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William Shockley, Solid State Group, Bell Telephone Laboratories.

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Volume 3, Number 10

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