PIN diodes, which sandwich a lightly doped intrinsic (I) region between heavily doped P and N regions, are used extensively in RF and microwave applications. Common applications of PIN diodes are ...

Making an oscilloscope is relatively easy, while making a very fast oscilloscope is hard. There’s a trick that converts a mundane instrument into a very fast one, it’s been around since the 1950s, and ...

A startup company named Sandtracker is challenging existing assumptions regarding RFID tag and reader designs with a new RFID technology that replaces silicon chips in the tags. The result, according ...

“Demonstration of resonant tunneling effects in metal-double-insulator-metal (MI 2 M) diodes,” Amina Belkadi, Ayendra Weerakkody, & Garret Moddel, Nature ...

In 3D printing, residual stress can build up in parts during the printing process due to the expansion of heated material and contraction of cold material, generating forces that can distort the part ...

Taiwan's 6-inch fab operators have cut capacity supply to vendors of IT-use diodes since the start of July as they are prioritizing foundry support for MOSFETs, diodes and power management ICs for ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Adaptive cruise control (ACC) is an automotive convenience or safety feature that allows a vehicle's cruise control system to adapt the vehicle's speed ...

In the first part of this series, we took a look at a “toy” negative-differential-resistance circuit made from two ordinary transistors. Although this circuit allows experimentation with ...

In the autumn of 2003 the US Department of Defense launched an ambitious program to create diode lasers that are 80% efficient at converting electricity into light. Dubbed SHEDS (standing for ...

A diode is a device that allows electric current to flow in only one direction, from its anode towards its cathode but not the other way around. There is plenty of online material explaining diode ...