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Radiation effects in solids

JUN 01, 1952
The following article is based on an introductory presentation during a session of invited papers of the Division of Solid State Physics at the meeting of the American Physical Society at Columbus, Ohio last March.
Frederick Seitz

As far as I am aware, this is the first invited session of the American Physical Society devoted to the topic of radiation effects in solids—a field that has been an active one for nearly a decade. I believe it is safe to say that it will not be the last such session. The long delay in this event arises, of course, from the fact that the field received its greatest stimulus from the wartime research in the field of atomic energy so that many aspects of it were classified at the start and will remain classified indefinitely in the future.

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References

  1. 1. See, for example, Lind, Chemical Effects of Alpha Particles and Electrons (Chemical Catalogue Company, 1928).

  2. 2. K. Przibram, Zeits. f. Physik 68, 403 (1931).https://doi.org/ZEPYAA

  3. 3. M. Burton, J. Phys. Chem. 61, 611 (1947).https://doi.org/JPCHAX

  4. 4. A brief account of the theory is given in the paper by the author, Discussions of the Faraday Society, p. 271 (1949).
    See also K. Lark‐Horovitz, Semiconducting Materials (Academic Press, Inc., New York), p. 47;
    D. S. Billington and S. Siegel, Metals Progress 58, 848 (1950).

  5. 5. S. Siegel, Phys. Rev. 76, 1823 (1949).https://doi.org/PHRVAO

  6. 6. See the account of M. M. Mills’ theoretical work in the review article by K. Lark‐Horovitz, reference 4.

  7. 7. W. H. Brattain and G. L. Pearson, Phys. Rev. 80, 846 (1950).https://doi.org/PHRVAO

  8. 8. J. C. Slater, Jour. App. Phys. 22, 237 (1951).https://doi.org/JAPIAU

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Frederick Seitz, University of Illinois, Urbana.

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