My fifty years with the transistor
From the first ever glimpse of Neptune transmitted by Voyager 2 in 1989, to the base stations used every day for our mobile phones and antennas, the High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) was instrumental in allowing broadcasting-satellite systems to spread around the world. In his fascinating talk, Dr Mimura will explore the succession of events that led him to invent the device and how this achievement changed the worlds of both information and communications technology and physics studies of electrons.
Date: 8 May 2018, 11:45 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2018)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Speaker: Dr Takashi Mimura (2017 Kyoto Prize Laureate for Advanced Technology)
Organising department: Blavatnik School of Government
Organiser contact email address: kyoto@bsg.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Kyoto Prize at Oxford
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Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.kyotoprize.ox.ac.uk/events/public-lecture-dr-takashi-mimura-my-fifty-years-transistor
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Lucy Forsyth