A conventional low-voltage silicon diode has a forward voltage drop of about 0.7V and a relatively low maximum reverse voltage, for example with the 1N4001 rectifier it’s 50V.

Mystery of the printed diode solved Date: July 7, 2014 Source: Linköping Universitet Summary: A thirteen-year-long mystery that has involved a long series of researchers has finally been solved.

In this Design Idea, an old technique of diode-based 16-to-4 encoding is combined with a new design, to scan a record number of buttons – 74 – with only four I/O pins!. The diode encoder: Background.

The diode sampler is the electronic equivalent of a stroboscope, capturing parts of multiple cycle of a waveform to give a much-slowed-down representation of it on the screen.

A group of researchers developed a highly sensitive rectifying element in the form of a nanowire backward diode, which can covert low-power microwaves into electricity. The new technology is ...

Andersen described some recent examples of the real-world applications of diode lasers in OCT. “The superluminescent laser diodes have really been the key component in OCT, where several of the ...

For standard MOSFETs, a 15V zener diode will suffice since the usual maximum Vgs is ~20V. Figure 2 Example of bridge rectifier approach using MOSFETs. Here is how the circuit works: When V1 goes ...