The history of the diode is a fun one as it’s rife with accidental discoveries, sometimes having to wait decades for a use for what was found. Two examples of that are our first two topics: t… ...

The diode is operated with a slight forward bias so a regular silicon signal diode (e.g., 1N914) can be used. The output impedance of the circuit is low and the load here has little effect on the ...

Sunnyvale, CA — Aeroflex/Metelics has released a family of surface mount GaAs and silicon Schottky mixer/detector diodes for high volume pick and place applications. These control devices are ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. and BOSTON, Oct. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Artilux, the leader of GeSi (germanium-silicon) photonics technology and pioneer of CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) based ...

Modern X-ray Detectors – the Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) Modern SDDs have extremely small sized anode with respect to their active area. The X-ray generated charged carriers (i.e., holes and ...

Dubbed the industry’s smallest and lowest profile silicon RF Schottky diodes in 0201 surface-mount packages, the SMS7621-096 and SMS7630-093 target a wide range of high-volume ...

One of the oldest and one of the newest semiconductors, Schottky diode use can be traced back to before 1900 where crystal detectors were all effectively Schottky diodes. Today, the new silicon ...

Although silicon photodiodes are widely employed in a host of light-detection technologies, scaling them up is difficult and expensive. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech ...

MALVERN, PA — Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) has announced the launch of 16 new 650 V and 1200 V silicon carbide ...

Then, once the size of MIT's diode for light is scaled down -- it's currently around 400nm long, some 20 times larger than a transistor -- we might begin to see photonic circuits in computers ...