The four-layer diode was the key to William Shockley's plan to revolutionize AT&T's phone system. It was a great device in theory, but not in practice -- at least not at the time when Shockley ...

A groundbreaking new equation could do for organic semiconductors what the Shockley ideal diode equation did for inorganic semiconductors: help to enable their wider adoption.

Four-layer diodes would certainly have been an improvement over transistors, but by single-mindedly focusing on inventing a whole new object instead of building something simpler, Shockley set the ...

For almost 80 years, the Shockley diode equation has described current flow through solar cells, which power homes and charge battery banks. However, a recent study cast doubt on this conventional ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---A groundbreaking new equation developed in part by researchers at the University of Michigan could do for organic semiconductors what the Shockley ideal diode equation did for ...