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Industrial construction of pn-junction diodes?
I was just doing a project for a website and my team member excavated a standard pn-junction diode to see that inside the ceramic casing, the semiconductors of p and n doping merely abut together in ...
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Simple pn junction / diode question
Lest assume we have the setup presented in the image.
What would be the potential difference (not voltage drop) between points A and B? Why?
What effect will the pn junction barrier potential have ...
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Excess minority carrier concentrations at the edges of the depletion layer
In a pn juction how do the excess minority carrier concentrations at the edges of the depletion layer p'(xn ),n'(−xp ) depend on the forward-bias voltage? Are these the maximum concentrations of the ...
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Light levels affecting IV curves for a Diode
I conducted an experiment to work out the saturation current under reverse bias for a diode in three different scenarios, ambient lighting, low light levels and high light levels. Is there an equation ...
