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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Diode │What is the Work of Diode │


A diode is a specialized electronic component with two electrodes called the anode and the cathode. Most diodes are made with semiconductor materials such as silicon, germanium, or selenium.



In electronics, a diode is a two terminal electronic component that conducts primarily in one direction ,  it has low resistance to the flow of current in one direction, and high resistance in the other. A semiconductor diode, the most common type today, is a crystalline piece of semiconductor material with a P N junction connected to two electrical terminals. A vacuum tube diode has two electrodes, a plate (anode) and a heated cathode.

Semiconductor diodes were the first semiconductor electronic devices. The discovery of crystals' rectifying abilities was made by German physicist Ferdinand Braun in 1874. The first semiconductor diodes, called cat's whisker diodes, developed around 1906, were made of mineral crystals such as galena. Today, most diodes are made of silicon, but other semiconductors such as selenium or germanium are sometimes used.


The most common function of a diode is to allow an electric current to pass in one direction (called the diode's forward direction), while blocking current in the opposite direction (the reverse direction). Thus, the diode can be viewed as an electronic version of a check valve. This unidirectional behavior is called rectification, and is used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC), including extraction of modulation from radio signals in radio receivers-these diodes are forms of rectifiers.

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