More about diode (67)

1-01-2012 | Electronic devices are becoming more and more complex, with simple circuits and discrete transistors practically a thing of the past. This m...

1-06-2011 | The first device that springs to mind when thinking about measuring radioactivity is the Geiger-Müller tube. However, these counter tubes ca...

1-03-2010 | The instrument described here lets you check that zener diodes up to 200 V are working correctly, and it lets you find out the reverse break...

1-02-2009 | Varactor diodes (Varicaps) along with many other exotic components which are often specifi ed in HF and RF designs are sometimes diffi cult...

1-07-2007 | Industrial production-line robots require high-resolution sensors to measure the position of robotic actuators so that the tools can be accu...

1-07-2005 | Conventional step-up switching regulator ICs need at least one external Schottky diode and have the disadvantage that there is no effective...

1-07-2004 | With battery-operated equipment there’s always the risk of batteries being inserted the wrong way around. Although a diode or a bridge recti...

1-07-2004 | A Zener diode is the simplest known type of voltage limiter (Figure 1) As soon as the voltage exceeds the rated voltage of the Zener diode,...

1-06-2002 | Want authentic tube overdrive without cranking your amp to ear-splitting levels? The Tube Box sits between your guitar and amplifier, delive...

1-12-2001 | It is well known that the p-n junction of a diode has a temperature coefficient of –2 mV/°C, and this fact is often used for temperature mea...