What Is a Clamping Diode? Clamping diodes are essential electronic components found in a wide array of modern circuitry. These…
Features of a Gunn Diode A gunn diode is made up of only N-type semiconductor which is typically sandwiched between…
PIN diode is characterized by fast low capacitance switching. A PIN diode is fabricated in a similar fashion to a…
The operation of a typical AM audio frequency signal is illustrated in the Figure 1.0 where vin is the modulated…
Schottky diode is fabricated as a metal-to-N junction rather than a P-N semiconductor junction. Also referred to as hot-carrier diodes,…
Laser diodes are PN junction devices under a forward bias. LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission…
The Impact Avalanche Transit Time (IMPATT) diode is a high power radio frequency (RF) generator that operates from 3 to…
The Shockey diode is a four layer sandwich of PNPN semiconductor material very similar to the SCR but without a…
The varactor also termed to as varicap, is a diode that behaves like a variable capacitor, with the PN junction…
Diodes are used in many applications for example diodes are employed in reverse-polarity protection, used in voltage regulators, etc. We…
