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Morgan Sparks | Times Online Obituary
rugged; they have an extremely long life, often in excess of 20 years; and they can control very large electrical currents. Sparks was born in 1916 at Pagoda Springs, Colorado. His father owned a hardware shopTelephone and Telegraph (AT&T), in New Jersey, gradually moving up into management. He began working on electrical storage experiments and on Second World War projects, such as developing batteries that worked in seawatercrystals. Teal had worked out how to produce a large single crystal of germanium, able to maintain a flow of electrical current for up to 100 times longer than in cut crystals. Sparks developed methods of adding impurities to the germanium crystals (a chemical process called doping) to control the electrical flow. He also discovered how to make the middle layer of the semiconductor sandwich thinner than a sheet Skip Most Read Today Indiana Jones’s toughest task ... Peter Philips and Autumn Kelly marry at... Gordon Brown slumps as fightback flops and... Crack
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