A Day at the Brown Boveri Research Center.
Abstract
The Brown Boveri Center is in a sense the corporate laboratory of the parent multinational company. The report briefly describes the laboratory's function within the organization, its management and the three main areas of research. The latter center around solid state physics, physics of fluids, and automatic control and instrumentation. Directional solidification of the cobalt chromium carbide system, as well as physical properties of certain carbides and carbon fibers are discussed. There then follows an example of a problem in 'reduction to practice,' namely, the need to maintain integrity in sizable p-n silicon junctions. A description is also given of some of the work in the field of coherent optics as well as technological interests in plasma physics. Finally, mention is made of the more recent venture at the laboratory into automatic control. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 16, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0727597
Entities
People
- Edward I. Salkovitz
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research