1947
Point-Contact Transistor
With John Bardeen, demonstrates transistor amplification by controlling electron and hole flow through a germanium semiconductor.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Murray Hill in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
With John Bardeen, demonstrates transistor amplification by controlling electron and hole flow through a germanium semiconductor.
Explains how electronic surface states affect semiconductor behaviour, helping guide the Bell Labs transistor experiments.
Develops the junction-transistor concept, providing a more robust way to control charge carriers in semiconductors.
Shows that disorder can localize electron wavefunctions and suppress electrical conduction, now called Anderson localization.
With Willard Boyle, invents the CCD sensor, shifting packets of stored electronic charge across a semiconductor for imaging.
Works on early Unix development at Bell Labs
Continues development of Unix at Bell Labs
With Gerald Dolan, builds a device in which Coulomb blockade permits controlled transport of individual electrons.
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