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Gallium Arsenide Crystals Practical with New Technique

Dr. James Hillier, vice president of RCA Laboratories, has announced that for the first time a practical technology has been developed for the use of gallium arsenide alloys in semiconductor devices. This, he says, promises to be a third major technology complementing the earlier methods for making practical devices from germanium and silicon.

How the various elements are vaporized and flowed on the gallium substrate.

Methods that produce germanium and silicon crystals (such as alloying and diffusing) have given poor device results for gallium arsenide. As a result there has been little progress with that material. The work has been carried on for a number of years. The method is known as vapor phase growth and is carried in a vacuum. All the materials are prepared separately in gaseous form. They are then mixed and allowed to flow over a solid crystal of gallium or one of its alloys. The crystal is kept a little cooler than the gases so they condense on its surface. This forms a true extension of the crystal, differing from it only in that it contains the required impurities.

Experimental devices already produced by the new technology include:

The first semiconductor laser to generate physical light at room temperature.

A Gunn-effect microwave source that has operated at 40 GHz, the highest frequency yet achieved this way.

The brightest electroluminescent diodes yet developed.

An electro-optical modulator that can modulate a visible laser beam transversely at the rate of 100 million bits per second.

Experiental varactor diodes with the highest combination of cut-off frequency and voltage breakdown yet achieved.

Philco Adds Tuning eye to Color TV Receivers

The new Philco color TV line includes a visual tuning indicator, resembling those used on stereo sound receivers. Converging green light bars indicate when the set is tuned exactly to the correct point for best color. The tuning indicator appears on the top model of the 23-inch line, all the 25-inch receivers and combinations and on the 21-inch color sets above $489.

Auto Sales Hurt by Color TV?

According to a New York consulting economist, the boom in color TV sales may be more responsible for any decline in auto sales than the belated discovery by prospective buyers that cars are not entirely safe. A typical color set, he says, costs about $500 or more. A car costs about $3,000 with an average $1,000 trade-in. Therefore a car requires about 4 times as much cash or credit as a color TV. This year about 3.2 million more color sets will be sold than in 1965. Thus, the TV industry could conceivably be responsible for affecting the sales of some 800,000 cars.

 

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