VOLUME XXVI JANUARY, 1947 no. i 



THE BELL SYSTEM 



TECHNICAL JOURNAL 



DEVOTED TO THE SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS 

 OF ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATION 



Development of Silicon Crystal Rectifiers for Microwave 

 Radar Receivers J. H. Scaff and R. S. Ohl 1 



End Plate and Side Wall Currents in Circular Cylinder 

 Cavity Resonator J. P. Kinzer and I. G. Wilson 31 



First and Second Order Equations for Piezoelectric Crys- 

 tals Expressed in Tensor Form W. P. Mason 80 



The Biased Ideal Rectifier W. R, Bennett 139 



Properties and Uses of Thermistors — Thermally Sensitive 

 Resistors . .J.A. Becker, C. B. Green and G. L. Pearson 170 



Abstracts of Technical Articles by Bell System Authors. . 213 



Contributors to This Issue 217 



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