The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) marks a major milestone with the 20th anniversary of the Mercury Pulsed Power ...

This second course provides a more detailed description of high-voltage Schottky and p-n diodes, starting with the semiconductor physics background needed to analyze both types of diodes. The main ...

Graduate level courses in physical optics, lasers, and completion of semiconductor devices specialization (ECEA 5630 Semiconductor Physics, ECEA 5631 Diode: Junction and Metal Semiconductor Contact, ...

Thermal diodes, much like their electrical counterparts ... Gunapala received a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 1986. In 1992, he joined NASA's ...

The four-layer diode was the key to William Shockley's plan to revolutionize AT&T's phone system. It was a great device in theory, but not in practice -- at least not at the time when Shockley ...

Nature Physics - Nanoscale engineering can now take advantage of a new ratchet device: it acts as a diode for superconducting vortices, but its directionality can be controlled and repeatedly ...

commercially viable OLED device in 1987 (Applied Physics Letters, "Organic electroluminescent diodes"). Despite thousands of publications, patents, and reviews on OLEDs, researchers are still working ...

The filament lamp is a common type of light bulb. It contains a thin coil of wire called the filament. This heats up when an electric current passes through it and produces light as a result.