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 ...

For nearly eight decades, the so-called Shockley diode equation has explained how current flows through solar cells; the electrical current that powers up your home or charges the battery bank.

WEEK 2: Bipolar transistor: static characteristics, microwave transistor, power transistor, switching transistor, related device structures. WEEK 3: Thyristor: basic characteristics, Shockley diode ...

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 ...

Ideal diode equation for organic heterojunctions. II. The role of polaron pair recombination. Physical Review B, 2010; 82 (15) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.155306 ...

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 ...