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1-12-1992 | At high currents, many silicon diodes have a forward voltage of 1V or more. There are types whose drop at currents of up to 2-3 A is limi...

1-12-1992 | The stepper presented here makes use of nine positions of a 12-position rotary swtch. It is, of course, possible to add the omitted steps...

1-04-1992 | Diode lasers that operate from the near ultraviolet to well into the infra-red region are common place and used, among others, in optical...

1-01-1992 | Resistance is omnipresent in electronics. A few materials (super conductors) lose their resistance at fairly low temperatures, and all mat...

1-07-1991 | The most popular currcnt indicator in electronics is almost certainly the Iight-emitting diode (LED) which is available in a number of c...

1-10-1990 | A portion of the current-voltage characteristic of certain devices, such as the thyristor, the tunnel diode and the magnetron, has a negati...

1-06-1990 | Power zener diodes are rare, hard-to-obtain and quite expensive electronic devices. The circuit described here is based on a handful of co...

1-07-1989 | 047 HIGH-POWER ZENER DIODE Although its regulation characteristics are not as good as those of an integrated voltage regulator, a high-power...

1-06-1989 | 60 SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES by T. Wigmore Although many readers know perfectly well what a diode is, it does no harm to repeat its definition he...

1-07-1987 | EE JULY/AUGUST 1987 After a longish absence from the semiconductor scene, the tunnel diode, also called Esaki diode, after its Japanese inve...