Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. In today’s tutorial, we will discuss What is the Power Diode. The diode is a commonly used module in electrical and electronic engineering. Almost in every electronic device and engineering project diodes are used. It is a PN junction device that has 2 terminals, anode and cathode. The main function of the diode is to convert the alternating current into the direct current, this feature of the diode is called rectification. When it works on the positive cycle of the alternating current its state named as forward biased when it works on the negative cycle of the ac its operating state known as reverse biased. In 1906 the first diode was manufactured by the crystals of the minerals.
Power diode is ident ...
Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. In today’s tutorial, we will discuss What is Full Wave Rectifier. Transformation of alternating current into the direct current is known as rectification. This conversion can be done by using a single diode or more than one diode. The diode that used for rectification is named as a rectifier. There are 2 main categories of the rectifiers, the first one is the half-wave and the other is full-wave rectifier.
In half-wave rectification circuitry, there is only single diode is used to convert alternating current into the direct current. So it can very easily design for rectification. But it has one drawback that it converts one half of the AC wave into direct current. Due to this, there is a higher power ...
Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. In our previous lectures, we have studied two types of diodes i.e. Basic PN diode and Schottky Diode. Today, we will discuss the third type of diode i.e. Zener Diode. Zener Diode was invented by the American engineer Clarance Melvin Zener, so it's named after him. The specialty of the Zener diode is that it can operate in both forward-biased and reversed-biased directions. In today's post, we will have a look at its working, features, ratings, construction and applications. So let's get started with what is the Zener Diode.
What is Zener Diode?
The Zener diode is a special diode, that enables the current to flow not only from the positive terminal (anode) to the negative terminal (cathode) but also in the opposite direction.
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Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. In our previous lecture, we studied the Basic PN Diode in detail and today, we will discuss a special type of diode called Schottky Diode. This diode was designed by the German physicist Walter H. Schottky, so it's named after him, thus called Schottky.
This diode is mostly used in radio frequency (RF) circuits or in power supplies. So let's get started with the basics of Schottky Diode:
Schottky Diode
Schottky Diode (also called Schottky Barrier Diode or Hot Carrier Diodes), discovered by German physicist Walter H. Schottky, is a special type of diode in which the P-layer(of PN junction) is replaced by the metal layer(i.e. Aluminium, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Platinum, Chromium etc.), while the N layer is of silicon(semiconductor - ...
