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Crystal detector
The crystal detector emerged at the intersection of two seemingly unrelated discoveries: Heinrich Hertz's demonstration of radio waves in 1888 and the...
Power MOSFET
In 1969, Hitachi introduced the first vertical power MOSFET, launching a revolution in power electronics that would eventually displace the bipolar tr...