Diodes today are solid-state devices, but in the beginning of the electronics age, they were crystals, as it was the German physicist Ferdinand Braun who first discovered in 1874 that crystals had ...

The existing infrastructure could be adapted without too much cost to work with Josephson diode based electronics. There is a very real chance, if the challenges discussed in the other question are ...

A compact 402 nm laser pushes power and lifespan higher without expanding its footprint.

Read the article to find out how commonly lasers are used in different applications. Laser technology is commonly used in a wide range of industrial and medical equipment, but also in devices found in ...

A team of researchers from Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC), and the University of California (Riverside, CA) has created a tunnel diode offering ...

Engineers in Switzerland have built light-emitting diodes so small that hundreds could line up across the width of a single ...

These automotive-grade Zener diodes in SOD-523 packaging bring protection to entertainment, ADAS, BMS, and other space-constrained applications. Toshiba Electronics Europe’s XCEZ series of ...

It seems to be Ideal Diode Week at Electronics Weekly (here and here) as Diodes is also promoting one, this time an ideal diode that can cope with ±65V on its input and drops only 20mV when conducting ...

Nexperia has put an ideal diode, including its p-channel mosfet, and reverse polarity protection, in a 2.1 x 1.25 x 0.95mm TSSOP6 package. Called NID5100, it is aimed at industrial and consumer ...

How designers can use transient voltage suppression (TVS) ICs to protect the two most common and sensitive interfaces on smart TVs—the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) and Gigabit Ethernet.