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An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
Examples of diode in a Sentence
A light emitting diode, or LED, first hit the lighting scene back in the 1920s.
He works with several types of lasers to meet his clients' needs, including the LightSheer XC Diode Laser that is suitable for all skin colors, including tanned skin.
The quick way to determine the problem is to test the capacitor or diode.
The high voltage section consists of special kind of capacitor and diode arrangement.
That stands for Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode and it makes for remarkably vibrant colors.
These are blue light, pulsed light, diode laser, photodynamic and photopneumatic.
Another measure of displacement is given by the total photo diode array output.
This " time out " allows the gallium arsenide laser diode time to cool off.
A variety of dosimetry techniques are available, including graphite calorimetry, diode and ion chamber dosimetry.
Second, the application of a custom made anti-reflection coating is an expensive process which furthermore risks damaging the diode laser unit.
Recent developments with cw diode lasers have realized the potential for compact instruments to perform in-situ measurements of atmospheric trace gas constituents.
The 3.3 Volt zener diode further enhances this result.
Describe the movement of charge carriers in forward/reverse biased p-n junction diode.
A calibrated p-type silicon diode detector was used to measure the dose received by the patient in the center of the field.
Reverse Polarity Protection is built into the beacon and achieved with negligible power loss by using a FET instead of a diode.
The pn junction diode D1 allows the flow of conventional current from left to right only.
He is involved in our work studying the applications of blue diode lasers.
The concept is simple - use a highly efficient light-emitting diode to produce the light source.
The X-ray output from the diode is used to obtain radiographs.
Total Reflectance Measurements are made using either a scanning spectrophotometer fitted with an integrating sphere accessory, or a diode array spectrophotometer.
Rise and fall times are strictly controlled to reduce high voltage transients which could damage the laser diode.
The laser used is a semiconductor diode laser, similar to that found in CD players.
All business calculators have some sort of LCD or liquid crystal diode displays that sometimes don't work well with different light levels.
As an electric current passes through the diode, light is generated.
This uses AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) technology.
At the same time, there is an argument that AMOLED (active matrix organic light-emitting diode) technology for displays offers brighter and more vibrant colors.