[sevensor]

I think this is a good deal older than 2007, but my memory could be playing tricks on me. I could swear I had read this when I was studying semiconductors in school, in the early 2000s.

Edit: could be I'm thinking of Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics, and I read this article later.

[2474]

Considering he graduated from Stanford in '99 I would say so.

[phyller]

From the previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2514041 looks like the Britney Spears tutorial in semiconductor physics is at http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.html

[vymague]

Possible, his homepage says it's published on July 2001 in Annals of Improbable Research.