His first splash came in 1968, when he announced that he had succeeded in making a switch out of amorphous silicon that relied on a principle he called Ovonics--named, of course, after himself.
This uses amorphous silicon, a noncrystalline form of silicon.
Katerva, a new nonprofit set up to recognize and support stand-out sustainability efforts around the world, has just announced the winner of an award competition it hopes will be like a Nobel prize in the broad and somewhat amorphous field of sustainability: Sanergy, a company that builds low-cost toilets in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya and converts the waste into fuel and fertilizer.
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The necromorphs themselves have an eerie, nigh-amorphous appearance that gives them a nice nightmare quality.
Putting yourself out there is not a broad, amorphous concept.
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Most of Mr Hayworth's supporters came from the Tea Party movement, a vocal but amorphous, staunchly conservative group who have wreaked havoc for traditional Republican candidates in places like Kentucky, Florida and Utah.
With only a high school and trade school education, he parlayed a pair of early inventions into seed money for a company based upon a revolutionary idea of physics: that a random, amorphous collection of atoms would be more powerful and cheaper than structured, crystalline ones to create and store energy and information.
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For some, they take the form of external hard drives or a slice of the amorphous cloud.
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Applying a tough sensibility to a tough assignment revitalized an amorphous status quo.
The company has licensed several patents from America's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where a team led by Paul Carey devised a clever way to turn amorphous silicon into the crystalline kind without high temperatures.
What I remember feeling was an incredible temptation to ask my father a question as he delightedly described these traps, and at the same time a huge and consuming but amorphous and nameless fear that prevented my asking the question.
With only a high school and trade school education, he parlayed a pair of early inventions into seed money for a company based upon a single idea:that amorphous and disordered materials could be better and cheaper than structured, crystalline ones to create and store energy and information.
Anonymous is so amorphous that it is hard to call it a group.
It wants to integrate the European nations into one amorphous mass that will clearly seek to have a single European Tax Policy.
Ovshinsky and his scientists had found a way to use thin films of amorphous silicon to turn the sun's energy into electrical power.
To record over an existing recording, the amorphous spots are reheated by the recording laser to a temperature that allows them to recrystallise.
In contrast, the Slingbox 500 is not a box, but rather, some amorphous shape we're pretty sure we never covered in high school geometry.
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Mr. MICHAEL O'HANLON (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute): So it's a word that's not only more amorphous, but frankly somewhat beyond rebuke or beyond repudiation on the part of critics.
To start with, it is developing a roll-to-roll process to make amorphous-silicon transistors on plastic film.
Using such an amorphous term, and then pretending it is well-defined, is a typical tactic in the climate debate.
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In this, the stream of video and audio data is recorded as a series of minuscule spots on the disc's surface that have been gently fried by a laser beam and turned from their normal crystalline condition to an amorphous state that has different reflective properties.
The advantage of it is that being amorphous, without those crystals and flaws, we can use less of it, a thinner piece of it, to get any particular level of strength that we might desire.
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