The simple Diode and LED Tester presented here costs under £5 to build (including all components, the battery and a cheap case) and will indicate the polarity of almost all types ...

Let's continue this example with the same 'thermal diode' under consideration, but now it will be dealt with as a transistor instead of as a 2-terminal diode. Treating the 'thermal diode' as a ...

To measure a zener diode’s breakdown voltage, you need a dc voltage source whose voltage exceeds that of the zener voltage. In Figure 1, resistor R SER provides voltage drop between V IN and V ZEN.In ...

SMC Diode Solutions is an American-led semiconductor design and manufacturing company based in Nanjing, China. Since the company’s founding in 1997, SMC has provided customers with high-quality ...

This Review Article provides an overview of chaos in laser diodes by surveying experimental achievements in the area and explaining the theory behind the phenomenon. The fundamental physics ...

Diodes embedded in the walls of microfluidic channels provide locally distributed pumping or mixing functions powered by a global external field.

If you treat it as a diode ROM, it’s basically a 270 bit ROM with 100 ones and 170 zeroes. The purpose is to encode “unit characters” for a display that will interface to the video game ...

Scientists have reviewed the superconducting diode effect, a quantum effect enabling dissipationless supercurrent to flow in only one direction. The SDE provides new functionalities for ...

When the integrated circuit was invented in 1958, it eclipsed the four-layer diode's capabilities and any market for the diode quickly dried up. Four-layered semiconductors are, however, used today.

The diode is operating at higher current (loaded by 100kΩ compared with 1MΩ in the example) and therefore has the higher voltage drop. At switch-on, the external mosfet’s parasitic diode initially ...