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The boundary between two different semiconductor materials, usually with a negligible discontinuity in the crystal structure.

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  • The Justice Department said its investigation found that Los Angeles-based Northrop and TRW Inc., which Northrop acquired in 2002, failed to properly test certain parts, known...
  • A possibility of obtaining an efficient injection in the heterojunction seemed doubtful to them and, in spite of the fact that potential advantages of DHS had been...
  • Herbert Kroemer and Zhores Alferov suggested in 1963 that the concentration of electrons, holes and photons would become much higher if they were confined to a thin...
  • There, a Dr. Poganski gave a beautiful demonstration that the selenium rectifier was not a Schottky barrier, but a p-n junction between p-type selenium and n-type CdSe, a true...
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