• DOI:10.1109/MIE.2011.943016
Corpus ID: 45476055

Trailblazers in Solid-State Electronics [Historical]

@article{Guarnieri2011TrailblazersIS,
  title={Trailblazers in Solid-State Electronics [Historical]},
  author={M. Guarnieri},
  journal={IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine},
  year={2011},
  volume={5},
  pages={46-47}
}

• M. Guarnieri
• Published 2011
• Engineering
• IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

The first person to investigate solid-state effects was the German physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun. It is little known that the first solid-state devices were made much earlier, even before thermionic tubes were conceived. The selenium rectifier was the first solid-state metal diode suitable for more general power uses.