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634: 66: 25: 168: 546:. These early lasers, mostly made out of a single chunk of GaAs, required high current densities to operate, so they could only run continuously at very low temperatures; at room temperature, they could only operate for a fraction of a second. For them to be used in a practical communications system, they would need to operate continuously at room temperature. 597:). Over the next few years, the lasers became longer-lasting and more reliable. At Bell Labs, the job of creating a practical device was given to Barney DeLoach. But in January 1973, they told him to cease all work on the problem. As he recalled, their view was "We've already got air, we've already got copper. Who needs a new medium?" 619:
After the work on double heterostructure lasers Panish continued to demonstrate variants of the laser structures with other collaborators in work done through the late 1970s, but the major thrust of his work for the rest of his career, until 1992, was to exploit the new opportunities presented by the
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laser but Kroemer failed to suggest that a suitable (lattice matched) combination of III-V semiconductors would be needed to provide ideal interfaces between the III-V compounds with their different bandgaps. The combination of such materials used for the first CW lasers was GaAs (Gallium Arsenide)
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into the atmosphere. Panish was unwilling to do this work, but the government allotted 5% of the budget to basic research. From 1957 to 1964 he worked on the chemical thermodynamics of refractory compounds, but then decided to leave because the government terminated the funding for basic research.
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in 1970 one month before Hayashi and Panish published similar results. Although there was some degree of contact between the group in Leningrad and the group in New Jersey including a visit by Alferov to the New Jersey lab, and a visit by Panish and Hayashi to Alferov’s lab in Leningrad, the two
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use of Molecular Beam Epitaxy to produce lattice matched semiconductor heterostructures in III-V systems other than GaAs-AlGaAs for other devices (detectors, quantum well physics and devices, ultra fast hererostructure transistors) and for the study of the physics of small layered structures.
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while Hayashi tested the laser properties. Panish and Hayashi observed what they thought might be CW operation in several wafers in the weeks before their final demonstration. That had to await a laser that lived long enough for a complete plot of the lasing spectrum to be achieved. Over the
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and the optical field (the light) to this layer, reducing the current needed for lasing. Panish and Izuo Hayashi independently developed the single heterostructure laser first and then the double heterostructure laser. However, publication of the announcement of the first room temperature
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compounds. Used to process reactor fuels, these compounds are highly reactive and dangerous, and after Panish had completed his experiments, another student was badly injured in an explosion. He resolved to work with less dangerous materials in future.
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weekend in 1970, while Panish was at home, Hayashi tried a diode and it emitted a continuous-wave beam with just over 24 degrees Celsius and he was able to plot the complete spectrum with the very slow equipment available at the time.
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and been rejected, but now they hired him. He started work in June 1964 in the Solid State Electronics Research Laboratory, a group headed by physicist John Galt. He was part of a department working on III-V
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Morton Panish was born in Brooklyn on April 8, 1929 to Isidore Panish and Fanny Panish (née Glasser) and grew up in Brooklyn. At the age of 12, he was strongly influenced by a book called
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and Aluminum Gallium Arsenide, which have the same lattice parameter. The idea was to place a material like GaAs, with a smaller
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Coleman, J J (1 September 2012). "The development of the semiconductor laser diode after the first demonstration in 1962".
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Panish, M. B. (1970). "Double heterostructure injection lasers with room-Temperature thresholds as low as 2300 A/cm²".
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Panish was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.
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achievements were obtained independently. Panish experimented with making wafers using a new form of liquid-phase
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Hayashi, I.; Panish, M.; Reinhart, F. K. (1971). "GaAs AlxGa1−xAs Double Heterostructure Injection Lasers".
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Hayashi, I.; Panish, M.; Foy, P. (1970). "Junction lasers which operate continuously at room temperature".
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Hayashi, I.; Panish, M.; Foy, P. (April 1969). "A low-threshold room-temperature injection laser".
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We were burning : Japanese entrepreneurs and the forging of the electronic age
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The continuous wave semiconductor laser led directly to the light sources in
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1979 Electronics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society
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Steven Chaim Panish, Paul William Panish, Deborah Faye Panish
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continuously operating double heterostructure laser was by
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1986 Solid State Medalist of the Electrochemical Society
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A solution to the problem was proposed theoretically by
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The following are some of the major works by Panish:
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1994 John Bardeen Award of the Metallurgical Society
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