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English: The first zone refining equipment from an advertisement by Bell Telephone Laboratories in an electronics magazine. Zone refining, a technique for purifying materials now widely used in the semiconductor industry, was invented by William Gardner Pfann in 1953. This was the first zone refining tube, with induction heating coiles.
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Source Retrieved July 20, 2014 from Radio and Television News magazine, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., Chicago, Vol. 52, No. 4, October 1954, p. 6 on American Radio History site
Author Unknown author Unknown author
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October 1954