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  • noun Any junction between two different semiconductors; functions as a diode

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  • The Justice Department said its investigation found that Los Angeles-based Northrop and TRW Inc., which Northrop acquired in 2002, failed to properly test certain parts, known as heterojunction bipolar transistors, made by TRW between 1992 and 2002.

    Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News 2009

  • The Justice Department said its investigation found that Los Angeles-based Northrop and TRW Inc., which Northrop acquired in 2002, failed to properly test certain parts, known as heterojunction bipolar transistors, made by TRW between 1992 and 2002.

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  • The Justice Department said its investigation found that Los Angeles-based Northrop and TRW Inc., which Northrop acquired in 2002, failed to properly test certain parts, known as heterojunction bipolar transistors, made by TRW between 1992 and 2002.

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  • The Justice Department said its investigation found that Los Angeles-based Northrop and TRW Inc., which Northrop acquired in 2002, failed to properly test certain parts, known as heterojunction bipolar transistors, made by TRW between 1992 and 2002.

    Market News 2009

  • Efforts are underway to increase operational speed to 100Gb/s, with energy consumption to be cut to 10 percent of current chips like the high electron mobility transistor, the heterojunction bipolar transistor and the complementary metal oxide semiconductor.

    June 2008 - Fareastgizmos.com 2008

  • There, a Dr. Poganski gave a beautiful demonstration that the selenium rectifier was not a Schottky barrier, but a p-n junction between p-type selenium and n-type CdSe, a true heterojunction - although that term did not exist yet.

    Herbert Kroemer - Autobiography 2001

  • A possibility of obtaining an efficient injection in the heterojunction seemed doubtful to them and, in spite of the fact that potential advantages of DHS had been recognized.

    Zhores I. Alferov - Autobiography 2001

  • Herbert Kroemer and Zhores Alferov suggested in 1963 that the concentration of electrons, holes and photons would become much higher if they were confined to a thin semiconductor layer between two others - a double heterojunction.

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 - Presentation Speech 2000

  • Kopin Corporation's voice-activated, wireless, hands-free Golden-i® mobile computing headsets, power-efficient, ultra-small liquid crystal displays, and heterojunction bipolar transistors HBTs are revolutionizing the way people around the world see, hear and communicate.

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  • At the ECS meeting, we summarized our recent work probing the voltage characteristics of our unique extended heterojunction structure, and presented evidence that these photovoltaic devices actually exceed the performance limits expected from traditional theoretical calculations.

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