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Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser

https://spectrum.ieee.org/invention-semiconductor-laser

by jnord • 2 years ago

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ordu• 2 years ago

Using a crystal made of purified geranium, a semiconducting material, the rectifier could convert AC to DC

I like this typo.

Terr_• 2 years ago

If you write down the exact line and column and ask them to look at it, would that make it an index of reflection?

cybervegan• 2 years ago

Yeah I saw that too - I'm sure they meant gerManium, but it's cool to think I could turn my geranium plant into a transistor! Of course, it would be a PNP transistor - Pink N Pretty.

throwaway4736• 2 years ago

I would have thought Chris Knight and Mitch Taylor would have had a hand in it.

natpalmer1776• 2 years ago

Well their project was later classified by the US Government.

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