The Transistor, A Semi-Conductor Triode

The work

AuthorsJ. Bardeen; W. H. Brattain
Editors
Typearticle
Year1948
Citekeybardeen1948transistor

Where it appeared

Published inPhysical Review
PublisherAmerican Physical Society
Volume74
Issue2
Pages230--231

Identifiers

DOI10.1103/physrev.74.230
OpenAlexW2066255432

Settled

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Related

Distinct frombrattain1948nature The two 1948 letters, published together and usually cited together. Bardeen and Brattain announce the device in *The Transistor, A Semi-Conductor Triode* at pages 230--231; Brattain and Bardeen -- the authors reversed -- explain the physics in this one at 231--232, opening 'In connection with the development of the semi-conductor triode discussed in the preceding letter'. They share leaves: one document in the corpus, claimed by both records, because Physical Review's Letters to the Editor pack several letters to a page and these two run continuously across the same two.

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@article{bardeen1948transistor,
  title        = {The Transistor, A Semi-Conductor Triode},
  author       = {J. Bardeen and W. H. Brattain},
  year         = {1948},
  journal      = {Physical Review},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  volume       = {74},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {230--231},
  doi          = {10.1103/physrev.74.230},
}

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