We have all had difficulty testing diodes in-circuit. Most DMM’s have a diode Vf function that measures forward drop, but what is the normal voltage drop? Analog VOM’s attempt to measure resistance of ...

When you need a multimeter for testing electrical equipment around the home, it's vital to know what all those symbols around the dial mean.

This application note describes the diode selection process and snubber design for high voltage inverting flyback converter for subscriber-line interface card (SLIC) applications. Critical diode ...

Here are a number of alternative ways to avoid problems when driving Varactor Diodes. Varactor (or “varicap”) diodes are used primarily in radio-frequency (RF) circuits to provide a capacitance that ...

[Hales] has been on a mission for a while to make his own diodes and put them to use and now he’s succeeded with diodes made of sodium bicarbonate and water, aluminum tape and soldered copper. By ...

RCD snubbers are widely used to limit peak voltage stress in switched-mode power supplies. By adding an extra resistor, the R2CD configuration improves performance across the board, lowers cost, and ...

In a world first, researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have successfully developed a resonant tunnel diode (RTD) that ...