Last week we covered diodes, specifically thermionic and PN junction diodes. But oh, there are more; and they’re special! One of the the most commonly used ‘specialty’ diode would have to be the metal ...

Australian semiconductor developer BluGlass has successfully demonstrated working tunnel junction laser diodes in a world-first proof-of-concept using its proprietary remote plasma chemical vapour ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Silicon Schottky diodes are used in power applications because of their low forward voltage drop, which allows lower ...

Although they are a simple device, diodes do have a number of traits to consider. These traits are often application dependent. Some applications include: rectifiers, signal ORing, transistor turn off ...

We performed experiments on a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) in the structure Si (substrate)/PtMn (15 nm)/CoFe (2.5 nm)/Ru (0.85 nm)/CoFeB (3 nm)/MgO (0.85 nm)/CoFeB (3 nm); see Fig. 1a. This ...

SemiQ Inc. has expanded its 1200 V Gen3 SiC MOSFET line with five SOT-227 power modules offering RDS(on) values of 7.4 mΩ, 14 ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Silicon transistors have been made smaller year after year, but they are approaching a point of physical limitation. Their increasingly small dimensions, now reaching well into ...

Engineers from North Carolina State University, Adroit Materials and Poland’s Institute of High-Pressure Physics have reduced ...

There are 8 different types of diodes that are available for use in electronics design. The various types of diodes enable different kinds of application specifications to be met. As a result of the ...