A diode is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts current primarily in one direction (asymmetric conductance). It has low (ideally zero) resistance...
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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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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 diode bridge is a bridge rectifier circuit of four diodes that is used in the process of converting alternating current (AC) from the input terminals...
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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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Diode is a device that is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts electric current in only one direction. Diode or Diodes may also refer to:...
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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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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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In electronics, diode modelling refers to the mathematical models used to approximate the actual behaviour of real diodes to enable calculations and circuit...
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Diode logic (or diode-resistor logic) constructs AND and OR logic gates with diodes and resistors. An active device (vacuum tubes in early computers,...
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OLED (redirect from Polymer light-emitting diode)
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 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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This diode is known by many other names, such as snubber diode, commutating diode, freewheeling diode, flywheel diode, suppressor diode, clamp diode, or...
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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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A diode matrix is a two-dimensional grid of wires: each "intersection" wherein one-row crosses over another has either a diode connecting them, or the...
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The term "thermal diode" can refer to: a (possibly non-electrical) device which allows heat to flow preferentially in one direction; an electrical (semiconductor)...
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Semiconductor device (section Diode)
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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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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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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Electronic component (section Diodes)
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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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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Clipper (electronics) (section Diode clipper)
are also called slicers or amplitude selectors. A simple diode clipper can be made with a diode and a resistor. This will remove either the positive, or...
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The Diodes are a Canadian punk rock band formed in 1976 in Toronto. They released five albums: Diodes (1977), Released (1979), Action-Reaction (1980)...
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A lambda diode is an electronic circuit that combines a complementary pair of junction gated field effect transistors into a two-terminal device that...
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The Shockley diode (named after physicist William Shockley) is a four-layer semiconductor diode, which was one of the first semiconductor devices invented...
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P–n junction (redirect from Idiot Diode)
p-n junction by itself, when connected on both sides to a circuit, is a diode. More complex circuit components can be created by further combinations...
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Clamper (electronics) (redirect from Diode clamp)
as to place its peaks at the reference level. A diode clamp (a simple, common type) consists of a diode, which conducts electric current in only one direction...
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Precision rectifier (redirect from Super diode)
ideal diode and rectifier. The op-amp-based precision rectifier should not be confused with the power MOSFET-based active rectification ideal diode. The...
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Photodiode (redirect from Photo diode)
A photodiode is a semiconductor diode sensitive to photon radiation, such as visible light, infrared or ultraviolet radiation, X-rays and gamma rays....
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A diode-connected transistor is a method of creating a two-terminal rectifying device (a diode) out of a three-terminal transistor. A characteristic of...
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