Inside Real Innovation

01 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eugene A. Fitzgerald

Through our own experience in fundamental innovation over the last 20+ years and through our innovation experience with corporations in the Kauffman Innovation Interface, we have developed a micro-scale innovation picture that captures the processes experienced by innovators. We use the real-life …

Research Directions for the Semiconductor Industry in 2009

13 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Steven James Hillenius

The Semiconductor industry has achieved extraordinary growth in productivity over the last 50 or more years through investment in basic research. The industry has depended on this basic research to find the breakthrough materials, structures, designs and architectures to enable the development of …

The History of Semiconductor Heterostructures Research: From Early Double Heterostructure Concept to Modern Quantum Dot Structures

11 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Zhores I. Alferov

It would be very difficult today to imagine solid-state physics without semiconductor heterostructures. Semiconductor heterostructures and especially double heterostructures, including quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots, currently comprise the object of investigation of two thirds of all …