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...

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron...

A diode is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts current primarily in one direction (asymmetric conductance). It has low (ideally zero) resistance...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A photodiode is a semiconductor diode sensitive to photon radiation, such as visible light, infrared or ultraviolet radiation, X-rays and gamma rays....

signal from the diode is routed to port 3, so there is little coupling from output to input. The characteristic impedance Z 0 {\displaystyle Z_{0}} of the...

configuration is known as a constant-current diode, as it behaves much like a dual to the constant voltage diode (Zener diode) used in simple voltage sources. Due...

regulator). Simple linear regulators may only contain as little as a Zener diode and a series resistor; more complicated regulators include separate stages...

satisfy it are called ohmic materials. In other cases, such as a transformer, diode or battery, V and I are not directly proportional. The ratio ⁠V/I⁠ is sometimes...

creates a diode between the drain (cathode) and the source (anode) of the MOSFET, making it able to block current in only one direction. Body diodes may be...

anode by the electric field in the tube. The simplest vacuum tube, the diode (i.e. Fleming valve), was invented in 1904 by John Ambrose Fleming. It contains...

A superluminescent diode (SLED or SLD) is an edge-emitting semiconductor light source based on superluminescence. It combines the high power and brightness...

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...

temperature continuous-wave-operating diode lasers and high-power diode lasers. The first room-temperature, continuous-wave diode lasers were successfully invented...

Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS, sometimes referred to as TDLS, TLS or TLAS) is a technique for measuring the concentration of certain...

A flexible organic light-emitting diode (FOLED) is a type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) incorporating a flexible plastic substrate on which the...

Retrieved 10 October 2011. Fahrrad-Halogenscheinwerfer [...] bidirectionale Z-Diode als Überspannungsschutz "Starke Leuchten am Rad, Teil 5: Rechtliches in...

transformer identity: where Z L {\displaystyle Z_{\text{L}}} is the load impedance of the secondary circuit & Z L ′ {\displaystyle Z'_{\text{L}}} is the apparent...

Operational amplifier Semiconductors: Diode Zener diode Light-emitting diode PIN diode Schottky diode Avalanche diode Laser diode DIAC Thyristor Transistor Bipolar...

AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode; /ˈæmoʊˌlɛd/) is a type of OLED display device technology. OLED describes a specific type of thin-film-display...

forward-biased diode in the circuit of a passive rectifier is undesired. In this active version, the problem is solved by connecting the diode in the negative...

square law behavior of the detector diode is exhibited only when the voltage across the diode is below the knee of the diode. Once the detected voltage exceeds...

formula E = I Z. So, the voltage drop in an AC circuit is the product of the current and the impedance of the circuit. P–n junctions in diodes and transistors...

high-power pentode tube (the usual choice for power RF) "Z" is used for semiconductor Zener diodes instead of (full-wave) rectifier valves (tubes). A Germanium...

the two sides of the capacitor. This effect is intentionally exploited in diode-like devices known as varicaps. If a capacitor is driven with a time-varying...

series: Z e q = Z 1 + Z 2 + ⋯ + Z n . {\displaystyle Z_{\mathrm {eq} }=Z_{1}+Z_{2}+\,\cdots \,+Z_{n}.} Impedances in parallel: 1 Z e q = 1 Z 1 + 1 Z 2 + ⋯...

radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. Tunneling applications include the tunnel diode, quantum computing, flash memory, and the scanning tunneling microscope...