Because the chemical equilibrium between a solid surface and an electrolyte solution typically leads to the interface acquiring a net fixed electrical charge, a layer of mobile ions, known as an electrical double layer or Debye layer, forms in the region near the interface.
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The Ph . D . dissertation addressed the following topics : ion distributions in molten salts, the structure of electrical double layers at electrodes in concentrated salt solutions, the partition functions for quantum fluids, and a particle-size-coupling formalism for equilibrium distribution functions . in In September 1959 he joined the Research Area of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ . Following the U . S . Justice Department's divestiture order for Bell Labs, Stillinger was transferred to a Lucent Technologies in 1996, where he experienced what he calls " impatient attitude toward basic research ", and later to Lucent's spinoff, Agere Systems, where his employment was terminated in 2001.
