Brattain
Proper noun
Meaning
Brattain (plural Brattains)
A surname.
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Examples
Brattain reported: "Using this double point contact, contact was made to a germanium surface that had been anodized to 90 volts, electrolyte washed off in H2O and then had some gold spots evaporated on it.
By June 1948, witnessing currents flowing through point-contacts, Mataré produced consistent results using samples of germanium produced by Welker, similar to what Bardeen and Brattain had accomplished earlier in December 1947.
Carefully restricted internal conferences within Bell Labs shared information about the work of Brattain, Bardeen, Shockley and others who were engaged in related research.
Improvements in transistor design Shockley was upset about the device being credited to Brattain and Bardeen, who he felt had built it "behind his back" to take the glory.
He ordered Brattain and Bardeen to find out why it wouldn't.
Brattain started experiments to study the surface states through observations made while shining a bright light on the semiconductor's surface.