James Meyer wrote:
On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 21:25:38 GMT, Jonathan Kirwan
wroth:

In any case, don't plan on building much other than a solar cell to
start. And keep things really simple and as safe as you can, as you
learn.

Of course, there's always the possibility of building point contact
transistors out of silicon in the comfort of your garage or kitchen. With a
flouride etchant to thin down a silicon wafer in the right spots and some indium
solder you could probably make a passable junction transistor.

But it is far more difficult than finding a sweet spot on a gallium crystal for a radio. You can go
through a lot of wafers before making one with little enough leakage to measure the effect. It took
Schokley and company a while to get an effect that could not be attributed to measurement error
beyond getting the effect in the first place.

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