Kurt Lehovec

<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2>
<p>Lehovec was born 12 June 1918, in <a href="/facts/Ledvice/Mkzc04CG">Ledvice</a> in northern <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_Bohemia/xLRecLL1">Bohemia</a> in <a href="/facts/Austria-Hungary/9WPUPj0W">Austria-Hungary</a> (now part of the <a href="/facts/Czech_Republic/vJYLD66Q">Czech Republic</a>). He was educated there and went to the United States in 1947 under the auspices of <a href="/facts/Operation_Paperclip/psCe5nL5">Operation Paperclip</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> which allowed scientists and engineers to emigrate.
With Carl Accardo and Edward Jamgochian, he explained the first <a href="/facts/Light-emitting_diode/gE8x4MDb">light-emitting diodes</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> citing previous work by <a href="/facts/Oleg_Losev/UJx3JCle">Oleg Losev</a>.
</p><p>The important case of fast ionic conduction in solid states is one in a surface space-charge layer of ionic crystals. Such conduction was first predicted by K. Lehovec in the paper "Space-charge layer and distribution of lattice defects at the surface of ionic crystals" ( J. Chem. Phys. 1953. V.21. P.1123 -1128). As a space-charge layer has nanometer thickness, the effect is directly related to <a href="/facts/Nanoionics/DNFRWGVT">nanoionics</a> (nanoionics-I). <a href="/facts/History_of_the_battery/BXKHXpcI">The Lehovec effect</a> forms a basis for a creation of multitude nanostructured <a href="/facts/Fast_ion_conductor/oE9l9Em6">fast ion conductors</a> as used in modern portable lithium batteries and fuel cells.
</p><p>Lehovec was a Professor Emeritus at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Southern_California/N0v9R5gs">University of Southern California</a> in <a href="/facts/Los_Angeles%2c_California/pyXpYEX9">Los Angeles, California</a>, and after retirement from USC Lehovec took to writing poetry.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> He lived in <a href="/facts/Southern_California/1CaAWjd2">Southern California</a> until his death in 2012 at the age of 93.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<h2 id="publications">Publications</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2813127A/Kurt_Lehovec">(unconfirmed)</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Invention_of_the_integrated_circuit/SQGXXNWm">Invention of the integrated circuit</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.electronicsweekly.com/mannerisms/yarns/the-americanisation-of-kurt-le-2010-02/"><i>The Americanisation Of Kurt Lehovec</i></a>, Electronics Weekly, retrieved 18 July 2014</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Kurt Lehovec, U.S. patent 3,029,366 awarded on 10 April 1962, filed 22 April 1959. <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US3029366" target="_blank">https://patents.google.com/patent/US3029366</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Robert Noyce credits Lehovec in his article – "Microelectronics", Scientific American, September 1977, Volume 23, Number 3, pp. 63–69. <a href="/wiki/Scientific_American" target="_blank">/wiki/Scientific_American</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Kurt Lehovec's Professional Career[permanent dead link] <a href="http://kurtlehovec.com/professionalhistory.html" target="_blank">http://kurtlehovec.com/professionalhistory.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>K. Lehovec, C. A. Accardo, AND E. Jamgochian, "Injected Light Emission of Silicon Carbide Crystals". Archived 2013-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, The Physical Review 83, #3, 603-607 1 August 1951 <a href="http://www.campevans.org/_CE/html/tpr-1951-08-01-p603-lehovec.html" target="_blank">http://www.campevans.org/_CE/html/tpr-1951-08-01-p603-lehovec.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Some of Lehovec's poetry publications <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2813127A/Kurt_Lehovec" target="_blank">https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2813127A/Kurt_Lehovec</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"Obituaries: Donald Payne, Kurt Lehovec", Los Angeles Times, retrieved 18 July 2014 <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings-20120309-story.html" target="_blank">https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings-20120309-story.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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