The paper represents the electrical behaviour of a new Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) power Schottky Diode compared to the bipolar silicon diodes. The paper also introduces its electrical measurements ...

In the field of power electronics, the compound semiconductors gallium nitride and silicon carbide are dominating the market. Due to its beneficial properties, gallium arsenide is gaining more and ...

A semiconductor-based laser used to generate analog signals or digital pulses for transmission through optical fibers. Both laser diodes and LEDs (light-emitting diodes) are used for this purpose, but ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Semiconductor researchers have known since the 1950s that the quantum-confinement effects of tunnel diodes boost circuit speed and current handling while reducing component count and ...

(Nanowerk News) A team at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has succeeded in growing nanocrystals of gallium arsenide on tiny columns of silicon and germanium. This enables extremely efficient ...

A two-day conference and gathering of the great and the good in the solid state source community was held at Warwick University, UK, at the end of September to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from Japan have demonstrated that a long-elusive kind of laser diode based on organic semiconductors is indeed possible, paving the way for the further expansion of lasers ...

PIN diodes are widely used as antenna switches and as switches in phase-shifter applications for phased arrays, radar, and broadband instrumentation. Silicon beam lead devices dominate the market. Now ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Wild DI 10 Distomat, one of the ...

AXT of Fremont, California, in the US, is to discontinue producing laser diodes to focus on its core business. The company is better known for its vertical gradient freeze crystal-growth technology, ...