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me package constitute a transient absorber or transorb a registered trademark graphic symbols edit main article electronic symbol the symbol used to represent a particular type of diode in a circuit diagram conveys the general electrical function to the reader there are alternative symbols for some types of diodes though the differences are minor the triangle in the symbols points to the forward direction i e in the direction of conventional current flow diode light emitting diode led photodiode schottky diode transient voltage suppression diode tvs tunnel diode varicap zener diode typical diode packages in same alignment as diode symbol the thin bar depicts the cathode numbering and coding schemes edit there are a number of common standard and manufacturer driven numbering and coding schemes for diodes the two most common being the eia jedec standard and the european pro electron standard eia jedec edit the standardized 1n series numbering eia370 system was introduced in the us by eia jedec joint electron device engineering council about 1960 most diodes have a 1 prefix designation e g 1n4003 among the most popular in this series were 1n34a 1n270 germanium signal 1n914 1n4148 silicon signal 1n400x silicon 1a power rectifier and 1n580x silicon 3a power rectifier 62 63 self published source 64 failed verification jis edit the jis semiconductor designation system has all semiconductor diode designations starting with 1s pro electron edit the european pro electron coding system for active components was introduced in 1966 and comprises two letters followed by the part code the first letter represents the semiconductor material used for the component a germanium and b silicon and the second letter represents the general function of the part for diodes a low power signal b variable capacitance x multiplier y rectifier and z voltage reference for example aa series germanium low power signal diodes e g aa119 ba series silicon low power signal diodes e g bat18 silicon rf switching diode by series silicon rectifier diodes e g by127 1250v 1a rectifier diode bz series silicon zener diodes e g bzy88c4v7 4 7v zener diode other common numbering coding systems generally manufacturer driven include gd series germanium diodes e g gd9 this is a very old coding system oa series germanium diodes e g oa47 a coding sequence developed by mullard a uk company related devices edit rectifier transistor thyristor or silicon controlled rectifier scr triac diac varistor in optics an equivalent device for the diode but with laser light would be the optical isolator also known as an optical diode that allows light to only pass in one direction it uses a faraday rotator as the main component 65 applications edit radio demodulation edit a simple envelope demodulator circuit the first use for the diode was the demodulation of amplitude modulated am radio broadcasts an am signal consists of alternating positive and negative peaks of a radio carrier wave whose amplitude or envelope is proportional to the original audio signal the diode rectifies the am radio frequency signal leaving only the positive peaks of the carrier wave the audio is then extracted from the rectified carrier wave using a simple filter and fed into an audio amplifier or transducer which generates sound waves via audio speaker in microwave and millimeter wave technology beginning in the 1930s researchers improved and miniaturized the crystal detector point contact diodes crystal diodes and schottky diodes are used in radar microwave and millimeter wave detectors 41 power conversion edit main article rectifier schematic of basic ac to dc power supply rectifiers are constructed from diodes where they are used to convert alternating current ac electricity into direct current dc automotive alternators are a common example where the diode which rectifies the ac into dc provides better performance than the commutator or earlier dynamo similarly diodes are also used in cockcroft walton voltage multipliers to convert ac into higher dc voltages reverse voltage protection edit since most electronic circuits can be damaged when the polarity of their power supply inputs are reversed a series diode is sometimes used to protect against such situations this concept is known by multiple naming variations that mean the same thing reverse voltage protection reverse polarity protection and reverse battery protection over voltage protection edit diodes are frequently used to conduct damaging high voltages away from sensitive electronic devices they are usually reverse biased non conducting under normal circumstances when the voltage rises above the normal range the diodes become forward biased conducting for example diodes are used in stepper motor and h bridge motor controller and relay circuits to de energize coils rapidly without the damaging voltage spikes that would otherwise occur a diode used in such an application is called a flyback diode many integrated circuits also incorporate diodes on the connection pins to prevent external voltages from damaging their sensitive transistors specialized diodes are used to protect from over voltages at higher power see diode types above logic gates edit main article diode logic diode resistor logic constructs and and or logic gates functional completeness can be achieved by adding an active device to provide inversion as done with diode transistor logic ionizing radiation detectors edit in addition to light mentioned above semiconductor diodes are sensitive to more energetic radiation in electronics cosmic rays and other sources of ionizing radiation cause noise pulses and single and multiple bit errors this effect is sometimes exploited by particle detectors to detect radiation a single particle of radiation with thousands or millions of electron volt s of energy generates many charge carrier pairs as its energy is deposited in the semiconductor material if the depletion layer is large enough to catch the whole shower or to stop a heavy particle a fairly accurate measurement of the particle s energy can be made simply by measuring the charge conducted and without the complexity of a magnetic spectrometer etc these semiconductor radiation detectors need efficient and uniform charge collection and low leakage current they are often cooled by liquid nitrogen for longer range about a centimeter particles they need a very large depletion depth and large area for short range particles they need any contact or un depleted semiconductor on at least one surface to be very thin the back bias voltages are near breakdown around a thousand volts per centimeter germanium and silicon are common materials some of these detectors sense position as well as energy they have a finite life especially when detecting heavy particles because of radiation damage silicon and germanium are quite different in their ability to convert gamma rays to electron showers semiconductor detectors for high energy particles are used in large numbers because of energy loss fluctuations accurate measurement of the energy deposited is of less use temperature measurements edit a diode can be used as a temperature measuring device since the forward voltage drop across the diode depends on temperature as in a silicon bandgap temperature sensor from the shockley ideal diode equation given above it might appear that the voltage has a positive temperature coefficient at a constant current but usually the variation of the reverse saturation current term is more significant than the variation in the thermal voltage term most diodes therefore have a negative temperature coefficient typically 2 mv c for silicon diodes the temperature coefficient is approximately constant for temperatures above about 20 kelvin some graphs are given for 1n400x series 66 and cy7 cryogenic temperature sensor 67 current steering edit diodes will prevent currents in unintended directions to supply power to an electrical circuit during a power failure the circuit can draw current from a battery an uninterruptible power supply may use diodes in this way to ensure that the current is only drawn from the battery when necessary likewise small boats typically have two circuits each with their own battery batteries one used for engine starting one used for domestics normally both are charged from a single alternator and a heavy duty split charge diode is used to prevent the higher charge battery typically the engine battery from discharging through the lower charge battery when the alternator is not running diodes are also used in electronic musical keyboards to reduce the amount of wiring needed in electronic musical keyboards these instruments often use keyboard matrix circuits the keyboard controller scans the rows and columns to determine which note the player has pressed the problem with matrix circuits is that when several notes are pressed at once the current can flow backward through the circuit and trigger phantom keys that cause ghost notes to play to avoid triggering unwanted notes most keyboard matrix circuits have diodes soldered with the switch under each key of the musical keyboard the same principle is also used for the switch matrix in solid state pinball machines waveform clipper edit main article clipper electronics diodes can be used to limit the positive or negative excursion of a signal to a prescribed voltage clamper edit main article clamper electronics this simple diode clamp will clamp the negative peaks of the incoming waveform to the common rail voltage a diode clamp circuit can take a periodic alternating current signal that oscillates between positive and negative values and vertically displace it such that either the positive or the negative peaks occur at a prescribed level the clamper does not restrict the peak to peak excursion of the signal it moves the whole signal up or down so as to place the peaks at the reference level computing exponentials and logarithms edit the 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