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  2. Robert N. Hall - Wikipedia

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    Hall developed the first semiconductor laser diode in 1962, while working at General Electric in Schenectady, New York. [4] In the 1970s, Hall's work focused on photovoltaics and solar cells. He retired in 1987, having been granted 43 U.S. patents during his career.

  3. Automated X-ray inspection - Wikipedia

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    With the advancement of image processing software the number applications for automated x-ray inspection is huge and constantly growing. The first applications started off in industries where the safety aspect of components demanded a careful inspection of each part produced (e.g. welding seams for metal parts in nuclear power stations) because the technology was expectedly very expensive in ...

  4. X-ray laser - Wikipedia

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    As the common visible-light laser transitions between electronic or vibrational states correspond to energies up to only about 10 eV, different active media are needed for X-ray lasers. Between 1978 and 1988 in Project Excalibur the U.S. military attempted to develop a nuclear explosion-pumped X-ray laser for ballistic missile defense as part ...

  5. Laser diode - Wikipedia

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    The laser diode chip removed and placed on the eye of a needle for scale A laser diode with the case cut away. The laser diode chip is the small black chip at the front; a photodiode at the back is used to control output power. SEM (scanning electron microscope) image of a commercial laser diode with its case and window cut away. The anode ...

  6. Photolithography - Wikipedia

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    Theoretically, an alternative light source for photolithography, especially if and when wavelengths continue to decrease to extreme UV or X-ray, is the free-electron laser (or one might say xaser for an X-ray device). Free-electron lasers can produce high quality beams at arbitrary wavelengths.

  7. Automated optical inspection - Wikipedia

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    An Automated Optical Inspection device. Automated optical inspection (AOI) is an automated visual inspection of printed circuit board (PCB) (or LCD, transistor) manufacture where a camera autonomously scans the device under test for both catastrophic failure (e.g. missing component) and quality defects (e.g. fillet size or shape or component skew).

  8. Nick Holonyak - Wikipedia

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    Nick Holonyak Jr. (/ h ʌ l ɒ n j æ k / huh-LON-yak; November 3, 1928 – September 18, 2022) was an American engineer and educator.He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention and first demonstration of a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light.

  9. Hybrid pixel detector - Wikipedia

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    Hybrid pixel detectors are a type of ionizing radiation detector consisting of an array of diodes based on semiconductor technology and their associated electronics. The term “hybrid” stems from the fact that the two main elements from which these devices are built, the semiconductor sensor and the readout chip (also known as application-specific integrated circuit or ASIC), are ...