Amorphous Semiconductors Revisited.

The article provides information on the area of solid-state physics that has been examined by a committee of the National Academy of Sciences in a report called Fundamentals of Amorphous Semiconductors. The features of the solid-state devices pioneered by Energy Conversion Devices Inc. founder Stanford R. Ovshinsky is discussed. Information about the application of a glassy semiconductor in xerography is presented. The possible advantages of amorphous memory devices over the comparison candidates are mentioned.