William Shockley's proposal used transport through the bulk of a semiconductor, rather than coupling between two surface points. The base must be thin enough for injected minority carriers to reach the collector. Two separately wired diodes do not supply that shared transport region. The proposal was a design principle; producing a working device required further control of material properties.[ref]

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