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John Bardeen
John Bardeen
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The Drude-Lorentz electron theory of metals and Einstein's applications of the quantum principle to lattice vibrations in solids and to the photoelectric effect date from this period. Von Laue's suggestion in 1912 that a crystal lattice should act as a diffraction grating for x rays and research of the W
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166-167.) If we look for a specific date for the beginning of the "third golden age" of solid-state physics, the logical choice is when Bardeen identified carrier injection in a semiconductor, that is, when Bardeen and Walter Brattain first demonstrated (December 16, 1947)
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He had heard that Einstein was coming to Princeton and thought there might be a possibility of working with him. As it turned out, Einstein did not take graduate students, and Bardeen wound up in the Princeton mathematics department (not physics)
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and worked on problems of ship degaussing and underwater ordnance. At the war's end, and with the need for increased salary for a growing family, he joined the newly formed Bell Telephone Laboratories group that set about acquiring a more fundamental understanding of solids (semiconductors)
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The problem with surface states led to an intensive study of surface effects with Walter Brattain. Bardeen realized that fundamental problems existed with evaporated films then used in field effect experiments, and suggested instead, as a thin conducting channel, the use of inversion layers on bulk crystals of known good properties.
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, the semiconcluctor took on then a new level of importance. In fact, semiconcluctor electronics as known tociay enjoyocl its beginning, en cl it is proper to say that the "thircl golden age" of solicl-state physics tract truly begun.
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John Bardeen had a unique influence on the technical and scientific life of our time. As aIreacly mentioned, he, with Brattain, identified minority carrier injection in semiconductors en cl invented the transistor.
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Even the light emitters and lasers of present-clay optoelectronics rely on the mechanism of carrier injection that begins with Bardeen and Brattain's original bipolar transistor. John Bardeen spoke in a soft voice and at times could be inaudible, particularly when he was tired, deep in thought, or in a long, involved discussion.
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With the transistor and BCS theory of superconductivity, not to mention his other work, he left science and technology, and indeed, the world, much richer than he found it. He, more than anyone else, can be said to be the "godfather" of modern electronics.
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