microelectronics
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effect on trade unions
- In organized labour: Breakup of the postwar settlement: Inflation, neocorporatism, and restructuring
…technology of the Fordist period, microelectronics allowed for a variety of alternative, “flexible” ways of organizing production in response to different product strategies, local organizational structures and cultures, and available work skills. For unions to play a role in the reorganization of productive relations that was made possible (and necessary)…
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similarity to solar cells
- In solar cell: Solar cell structure and operation
Solar cells and microelectronic devices share the same basic technology. In solar cell fabrication, however, one seeks to construct a large-area device because the power produced is proportional to the illuminated area. In microelectronics the goal is, of course, to construct electronic components of ever smaller dimensions in…
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