Oral history interview with James Francis Black, 1985 January 16.

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Oral history interview with James Francis Black, 1985 January 16.

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Summary of work and development of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and diode lasers done in the 1950s and early 1960s at Sylvania Research Laboratories, and at General Telephone and Electronics Laboratories, 1961-1964. Semiconducting Compounds Group investigates intermetallic compounds, especially GaAs and HgTe in the 1950s. Group joins the Battelle Memorial Institute group, 1957. Group effort devoted to GaAs from 1958. Group leaders discussed, Don Wahl, Henry Minden, Sumner Mayburg. Work prompted in part by Heinrich Welker's 1952 report on preparation and properties of III-V compounds. Description of research proposals, notebook entries, reports, and memos pertaining to invention of GaAs laser, GaAs diffuse diode lasing, 1961-1962, and the cylindrical GaAs laser diode, 1963. GT&E activity in light emitting diodes and laser diodes reduced by 1964. Also prominently mentioned are: K. Arnold, J. Birman, R. Harrigan, Paul Keck, M. J. Massoulie, J. I. Pankove, B. Smith, and Otto Weinrich.

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette, 1 session.No transcript; notes: 9 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Due to the merger of General Telephone Company and Sylvania Electric Products, the Sylvania Research Laboratory was renamed General Telephone and Electronics Laboratories, Inc., to reflect the new name of the corporation. From the description of Summary of work at Sylvania Research Laboratories/General Telephone and Electronics Laboratories, 1953-1964, 1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78951170 ...

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Bromberg, Joan Lisa

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Historian (science). On history of science faculty at the University of Hawaii, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the Hebrew University; assistant to Léon Rosenfeld at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1969-1971); contract historian at the U. S. Department of Energy (1977-1981); and director of the Laser History Project co-sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics, from 1982. Wrote "The Laser in America, 1950-1970" in 1991 (MIT Press). Latest work ...

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