Deathnium

Deathnium is a name given by early electronic engineers to a trap in semiconductors that reduced the lifetime of both electron and hole charge carriers.

References

• Transistor Electronics: Imperfections, Unipolar and Analog Transistors, Shockley, W., Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, N.J.; Proceedings of the IRE Volume: 40, Issue: 11 pp: 1289-1313 (Nov. 1952) doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1952.273954

External links

• http://www.guitarjamdaily.com/index.php/columnists/120-columnists/2105-pedal-insider-junction-capacitance-and-the-miller-effect-in-the-fuzz-face.html
• Shockley's Nobel lecture