Researchers have found a way to make a key electronic component on a phenomenally tiny scale -- a single-molecule diode. Recently, at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and ...

A diode is a semiconductor device that allows electrical current to flow in one direction while blocking it in the other.

Photo Diode chip active area sizes from 0.1mm to 3.0mm are available to provide the optimum balance between low dark current, high speed and light sensitivity. This allows for increased flexibility ...

Technological advances in the electronics industry have resulted in our digital cameras, computers, and cell phones drastically reducing in size. In order to maintain this momentum, there is a strong ...

I provided some engineering assistance a couple years ago for a company designing photo-voltaic array (PVA) based power inverters. These are sometimes referred to as micro-inverters since they are ...

USING TRENCHFET Gen III silicon, the Si4628DY SkyFET from Vishay Intertechnology offers a maximum RDS(ON) of 3 m at a 10-V gate drive and 3.8 m at 4.5 USING TRENCHFET® Gen III silicon, the Si4628DY ...

With the ADL-85Y51TL from Arima, LASER COMPONENTS now offers a cw laser diode that generates 250mW of power from a 5.6-millimetre housing. This cost-effective powerhouse emits at a wavelength of 850nm ...

The growing importance of high-power diode technology for materials-processing applications has fuelled a series of acquisitions in the area. It's been an interesting few months for the laser-diode ...

Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology in the US are claiming a world first with the fabrication of a new kind of optical device that combines the function of a photodetector and a rectifier ...

Improvements in AC-DC power supply design are evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. It is easy to settle for tried and tested approaches because no one new design technique is likely to yield great ...

Taiwan-based automotive diode component maker Actron Technology saw its net profits decrease 17.8% on year to NT$331 million (US$11.1 million) in 2012. The earnings translated into an EPS of NT$4.43 ...