Terahertz Pioneer: Robert J. Mattauch "Two Terminals Will Suffice"
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Siegel, Peter H.
Abstract
Robert J. Mattauch did not intend to spend a large part of his technical career on the development of a device as deceptively simple as a Schottky barrier diode. However, that turned out to be case, and it was perhaps one of the best things to ever happen to the THz sensor community. From astronomers and physicists, to spectroscopists and chemists, almost no one who devoted their time towards making precise measurements in the submillimeter wavelength range failed to contact Bob Mattauch at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, to ask for his latest batch of detector diodes. In fact, those of you who were fortunate enough to be present at the Thursday Plenary session of the 39th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves in Tucson, AZ, USA, this past September 18th, 2014, would have heard several appeals, and even an offer of significant money from Berkeley spectroscopist, Richard J. Saykally, to anyone who could deliver a batch of University of Virginia whisker contacted THz Schottky barrier diodes to his laboratory!
Additional Information
© 2014 IEEE. Manuscript received September 29, 2014; accepted September 30, 2014.Date of publication October 13, 2014; date of current version October 30, 2014.Errata
In the article on THz Pioneer Robert J.Mattauch (P. H. Siegel, "THz Pioneer: Robert J. Mattauch," IEEE Trans. THz Sci. Technol., vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 646–652, Nov. 2014), there are several references to the formation of Virginia Diodes (VDI). Associated with all of these references there should be at least one additional person mentioned, Bill Bishop.Additional details
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