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 ...

Inventor William Shockley won a Nobel Prize for his work on transistors, work that launched the modern electronic age. He also became widely known for controversial ideas on eugenics and race.

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.

Shockley finally succeeded in manufacturing his pet project, the four-layer diode, but hampered by inconsistency, it failed commercially. Shockley Semiconductor was sold in 1960 and again in 1965.

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.

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.

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 ...