What if you were to swap out the mythical germanium diodes in a Klon Centaur overdrive pedal circuit and replace them with germanium transistors? Guitar effects pedal guru Robert Keeley asked that ...

We got ourselves a ‘Golden Horsie’ in, and we did tons of comparison There is a toggle switch that allows you two toggle between the germanium transistor mode, in which these Russian transistors are ...

This paper gives the results of an investigation of the use of a microwave crystal as an RF switching element. Variation of a dc bias applied to the crystal will change its impedance, thereby ...

A high-performance IMPATT diode test circuit has been developed which is very effective in reducing spurious oscillations. In this circuit, a 6-GHz germanium diode has been tested at 12.1-percent CW ...

Silicon diodes clip around 0.7 V, while germanium diodes clip at about 0.3 V, but that doesn’t give you much flexibility. You can work with this to some degree, though.

Nexperia has introduced what are believed to be the industry’s first ESD diodes designed to protect 48 V automotive data ...

Now researchers from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have demonstrated a vertical GaN PiN diode with a reverse blocking voltage (BV) higher than 1.7 kV after high-energy proton ...