Nature of the Forward Current in Germanium Point Contacts

The work

AuthorsW. H. Brattain; J. Bardeen
Editors
Typearticle
Year1948
Citekeybrattain1948nature

Where it appeared

Published inPhysical Review
PublisherAmerican Physical Society
Volume74
Issue2
Pages231--232

Identifiers

DOI10.1103/physrev.74.231
OpenAlexW2091615515
ISSN0031-899X

Settled

AbstractPhysical Review's Letters to the Editor printed no abstracts. This letter opens straight into 'In connection with the development of the semi-conductor triode discussed in the preceding letter', and there is no abstract block on the page to transcribe. Same reason the companion record bardeen1948transistor carries an empty abstract; that one was settled at the 1.0 migration without a stated reason, and this is the reason.

Related

Distinct frombardeen1948transistor 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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Cite it as

@article{brattain1948nature,
  title        = {Nature of the Forward Current in Germanium Point Contacts},
  author       = {W. H. Brattain and J. Bardeen},
  year         = {1948},
  journal      = {Physical Review},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  volume       = {74},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {231--232},
  issn         = {0031-899X},
  doi          = {10.1103/physrev.74.231},
}

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