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This Festschrift is an outgrowth of a collection of papers
presented as a conference in honor of Professor Heinz K. Henisch on
his sixty-fifth birthday held at the Institute for Amorphous
Studies. Bloomfield Hills. Michigan. It is our great pleasure to be
editors of the Festschrift volume to honor Heinz and his work.
Professor Henisch has a long and distinguished career and has many
accomplishments in semiconductor materials and devices. He has made
seminal contributions to the understanding of semiconductor
switching devices and contact properties. He has an outstandin~
reputation as an expositor of science. His seminars and lectures
are always deep. lucid and witty. He received his doctorate in
Physics from the University of Reading and then joined the faculty.
In 1963. he accepted a position in the Department of Physics at
Pennsylvania State University. While at Penn State. Dr. Henisch
broadened his research interest to include the History of
Photography. At the present time. Dr. Henisch holds parallel
appointments as a Professor of Physics and a Professor of the
History of Photography at Pennsylvania State University. He is a
Fellow of the American Physical Society. the Institute of Physics.
London. the Royal Photographic society and is a Corresponding
Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Photographie. In addition
to his considerable publication in the fields of physics and the
history of photography. Dr. Henisch is the founder and editor of
the Journal of the History of Photography published quarterly by
Taylor and Francis. Ltd .. London.
Twenty-four years ago, Hellmut Fritzsche came to our laboratory to
evaluate our work in amorphous materials. He came many times,
sometimes bringing his violin to play with our youngest son, to
talk, to help, to discover, and to teach. The times with him were
always exciting and rewarding. There was a camaraderie in the early
years that has continued and a friendship that has deepened among
Iris and me and Hellmut, Sybille and their children. The vision
that Hellmut Fritzsche shared with me, the many important
contributions he made, the science that he helped so firmly to
establish, the courage he showed in the time of our adversity, and
the potential that he recognized put all of us in the amorphous
field, not only his close friends and collaborators, in his debt.
He helped make a science out of intuition, and played an important
role not only in the experimental field but also in the basic
theoretical aspects. It has been an honor to work with Hellmut
through the years.
Landmark contributions to science and mechanisms for the origin of
the phenomena, and technology are rarely recognized at the time of
reached important conclusions about the physical publication. Few
people, even in technical areas, nature of the materials at
equilibrium and their recogni zed the importance of developments
such as electronic nonequilibrium properties. Many of these the
transistor, the laser, or electrophotography ideas were condensed
into a publication for Physical until well after their successful
demonstration. Review Letters, paper 1 in this collection. This
So-called experts, in fact, tend to resist new paper immediately
attracted attention to the field, inventions, a natural instinct
based on a combina and directly lead to the initiation of large
research tion of fear of obsolescent expertise and jealousy efforts
at both industrial laboratories and univer- arising from lack of
active participation in the ties throughout the world. Inevitably,
there was discovery. the usual amount of controversy, with many
experts Denigration of new ideas is a relatively simultaneously
taking positions (2) and (3) above. safe modus operandi, since the
vast majority It has now been well over 20 years since eventually
are abandoned well short of commerciality. the original publication
date, and an objective view However, a successful device can be
identified by can be taken in hindsight.
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