Semiconductors

made foundational contributions to many emerging areas of science, including the electrical properties of semiconductors, light propagation in optical fibers, and charge motion in quasi-one-dimensional materials; with victor Weisskopf developed the Conwell–Weisskopf formula, which helped underpin the development of the transistor and other semiconductor devices; with William Shockley helped to develop the theory of hot electron transport in germanium; her monograph on high-field transport was influential in the development of semiconductor electronics; made important early contributions on wave propagation in optical fibers; played a crucial role in the emerging field of organic electronic materials and published seminal papers on the theory of the mobility and optical properties of polaronic charge carriers in conjugated polymers and organic semiconductors; Her research was an important part of a substantial effort at Xerox to develop flexible-belt photoreceptors, which became the basis for a highly successful series of products in the 1980s and 1990s;

Waveguide imaging system; Elastomer wave guide opticalmodulators; Externally controllable miniature lasers; Semiconductor device

Category:
Physics

Completion Status:
yes

Patent Number:
4162118; 4106848; 4002998; 3001134

Co-Inventor:
Dorian Kermisch; James C. Maher; Gustav R. Pfister; Richard L. Schank; Abraham Many