• A PIN diode is a diode with a wide, undoped intrinsic semiconductor region between a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor region. The p-type...
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    p–n diodes found in CMOS integrated circuits, which include two diodes per pin and many other internal diodes. Avalanche diodes These are diodes that...
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    Photodiode (redirect from Photo diode)
    spectrometers. A photodiode is a PIN structure or p–n junction. When a photon of sufficient energy strikes the diode, it creates an electron–hole pair...
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    A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron...
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    Schottky diode (named after the German physicist Walter H. Schottky), also known as Schottky barrier diode or hot-carrier diode, is a semiconductor diode formed...
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    A Zener diode is a special type of diode designed to reliably allow current to flow "backwards" (inverted polarity) when a certain set reverse voltage...
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    A tunnel diode or Esaki diode is a type of semiconductor diode that has effectively "negative resistance" due to the quantum mechanical effect called...
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    Varicap (redirect from Varicap diode)
    electronics, a varicap diode, varactor diode, variable capacitance diode, variable reactance diode or tuning diode is a type of diode designed to exploit...
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    organic light-emitting diode (OLED), also known as organic electroluminescent (organic EL) diode, is a type of light-emitting diode (LED) in which the emissive...
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    A transient-voltage-suppression (TVS) diode, also transil, transorb or thyrector, is an electronic component used to protect electronics from voltage...
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    MOSFET Enhancement mode, P‑channel MOSFET Vacuum tube diode Vacuum tube triode Vacuum tube tetrode (pin letters not part of symbol) Vacuum tube pentode For...
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    DIAC Diode (rectifier diode) Gunn diode IMPATT diode Laser diode Light-emitting diode (LED) Photocell Phototransistor PIN diode Schottky diode Solar...
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  • Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) produce light (or infrared radiation) by the recombination of electrons and electron holes in a semiconductor, a process called...
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  • Look up PIN, pin, Pin, pín, pìn, pîn, pīn, pǐn, or piņ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together...
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    A Gunn diode, also known as a transferred electron device (TED), is a form of diode, a two-terminal semiconductor electronic component, with negative differential...
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    laser diode (LD, also injection laser diode or ILD or semiconductor laser or diode laser) is a semiconductor device similar to a light-emitting diode in...
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    constant-current diode is an electronic device that limits current to a maximal specified value for the device. It is known as a current-limiting diode (CLD) or...
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  • In electronics, an avalanche diode is a diode (made from silicon or other semiconductor) that is designed to experience avalanche breakdown at a specified...
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    Vacuum tube (redirect from Vacuum diode)
    General Electric Compactron which has 12 pins. A typical example, the 6AG11, contains two triodes and two diodes. Some otherwise conventional tubes do not...
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    behaviors. Diode, rectifier, diode bridge Schottky diode (hot carrier diode) – super fast diode with lower forward voltage drop Zener diode – allows current...
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    The DIAC (diode for alternating current) is a diode that conducts electrical current only after its breakover voltage, VBO, has been reached momentarily...
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    barrier diode, commonly known as a Schottky diode. This is included in the table because some silicon power IGFETs have a parasitic reverse Schottky diode formed...
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    incorporate a body diode. If the characteristics of the body diode are not taken into consideration, the FET can experience slow body diode behavior, where...
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    a plastic triangle—a configuration which is essentially a point-contact diode. He then carefully sliced through the gold at the tip of the triangle. This...
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    low pass filter to a PIN-diode. In rx mode, these are turned off. The rx signal then passes through a DAN235U; this is a dual diode and when in UHF rx mode...
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    Power MOSFET (redirect from Body diode)
    connections. When in the OFF-state, the power MOSFET is equivalent to a PIN diode (constituted by the P+ diffusion, the N− epitaxial layer and the N+ substrate)...
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    Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) Photodiode PIN diode Schottky diode Step recovery diode Zener diode Other devices Printed electronics Printed circuit...
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  • Position sensitive device (category Optical diodes)
    used for local measurements. On a laminar semiconductor, a so-called PIN diode is exposed to a tiny spot of light. This exposure causes a change in local...
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  • regulator). Simple linear regulators may only contain as little as a Zener diode and a series resistor; more complicated regulators include separate stages...
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    contain at least two semiconductors (a diode and a transistor, although modern buck converters frequently replace the diode with a second transistor used for...
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