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DescriptionSilicon crystal detector.jpg
English: Silicon point-contact crystal detector from 1906, invented by Greenleaf Whittier Pickard. This was the first silicon diode. The brass contact point touched the surface of a crystal of silicon to form a crude Schottky junction. Silicon did not require the delicate cat's whisker contact of the galena detector. The flat piece of silicon is embedded in solder in the shallow metal cup at bottom, which can be moved horizontally to try different contact points. There is a helical spring inside the barrel of the device which puts pressure on the contact.
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