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   Diodes, Silicon

In electronics, a diode is a component that restricts the direction of movement of charge carriers. Essentially, it allows an electric current to flow in one direction, but blocks it in the opposite direction. Thus, the diode can be thought of as an electronic version of a check valve. Circuits that require current flow in only one direction will typically include one or more diodes in the circuit design.

Early diodes included "cat's whisker" crystals and vacuum tube devices (called thermionic valves in British English). Today the most common diodes are made from semiconductor materials such as silicon or germanium.



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Amorphous Silicon Pin Diodes : Their Fabrication and Application to Thin Film Devices
Hiroshi Sakai and Y. Ichikawa

Advances in Silicon Carbide Processing and Applications (Semiconductor Materials and Devices Series)
Stephen E. Saddow and Anant Agarwal

Excerpt - page 99: "... directly affected by the junction temperatures of the IGBTs and diodes. The silicon IGBT die temperature must be kept below 150nd the ..."
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Silicon Germanium: Technology, Modeling, and Design
Raminderpal Singh, Modest M. Oprysko, and David Harame

Excerpt - page 115: "... A. S. Grove, "General Relationship for the Thermal Oxidation of Silicon ," J. Appl. Phvs., vol. 36, pp. 3770-3778, 1965. 4. D. L. Scharfetter and H. K. Gummel, "Large-Signal Analysis of a Silicon Read Diode Oscillator," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 16, pp. 64-77, 1969. ..."
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Light-Emitting Diodes
E. Fred Schubert

Excerpt - page 26: "... (2000) Potter R. M., Blank J. M., and Addamiano A. "Silicon carbide light-emitting diodes" J. Appl. Phys. 40, 2253 (1969) Quist T. M., Rediker ..."
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Technology and Applications of Amorphous Silicon (Springer Series in Materials Science)
Robert A. Street

Excerpt - page 92: "... and W. E. Spear: The characteristics of high current amorphous silicon diodes, Appl. Phys., 21. 307 311, 1980. 2.46 N. Szydlo, E. ..."
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VLSI Fabrication Principles: Silicon and Gallium Arsenide, 2nd Edition
Sorab K. Ghandhi

Excerpt - page 5: "... platinum and palladium can be used to make satisfactory Schottky diodes on n-silicon. Considerable attention must be paid to surface processing conditions in ..."
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Handbook of Silicon Semiconductor Metrology
Alain C. Diebold

Excerpt - page 93: "... Deal. Standardized terminology for oxide charges associated with thermally oxidized silicon. IEEE Trans. Elec. Dev. ED-27:606, ... silicon oxide interface employing metal-oxide-silicon diodes. Sol. St. Elecs. 5:285, 1962. 37. C.N. Berglund. Surface states ..."
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Nanostructured Silicon-based Powders and Composites
Andre Pierre Legrand and Christiane Senemaud

Excerpt - page 109: "... high-resolution goniometric stage (super-twin stage) and an EDAX detector (Li-doped silicon diode), protected by an ultra-thin window allowing the detection of chemical ..."
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Electronic Genie: THE TANGLED HISTORY OF SILICON
Frederick Seitz and Norman Einspruch

Excerpt - page 97: "... 1.4 centimeters. No mention is made of the source of silicon, whether of metallurgical or reagent ... Rottgardt and Klumb on silicon diodes treated so casually by those in charge of German military ..."
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Germanium Silicon: Physics & Materials (Semiconductors and Semimetals)
Robert Hull and John C. Bean

Excerpt - page 382: "... Y., and Collins, G. J. (1993). Visible electroluminescence from porous silicon diodes with an electropolymerized contact, Appl. Phys. Lett., 63, 2655-2657. Kruck, ..."
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Thin-Film Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells: Physics and Technology
Rolf Brendel

Excerpt - Back Matter: "... recombination velocity at loin-high junction of an n- p p- silicon diode, IEEE Trans. Electron. Devices ED-38, 337 (1991). [173] S. N. ..."
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Integrated Silicon Optoelectronics (Springer Series in Photonics)
Horst Zimmermann

Excerpt - page 26: "... [12]. However, deeply diffused doping regions should be avoided in silicon photo- diodes at least for short wavelengths in order to keep the ..."
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Silicon Photonics
Lorenzo Pavesi and David J. Lockwood

Excerpt - page 3: "... 6]. For example. monolithically integrated GaAs effi- cient light emitting diode (LED) arrays with Si driver ... diodes are merged with passive silicon based optical components are commercially available [8]. However. the main ..."
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Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Diode Frequency Multipliers (Artech House Microwave Library)
Marek T. Faber, Jerzy Chramiec, and Miroslaw E. Adamski

Excerpt - page 24: "... rrtype. Hence, n-type semiconductors are used almost exclusively for Schottky diodes. Many metals can create a Schottky barrier on either silicon or GaAs semiconductors; platinum, gold, and aluminum are commonly used ..."
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ESD in Silicon Integrated Circuits
E. Ajith Amerasekera and Charvaka Duvvury

Excerpt - page 76: "... that the avalanche breakdown voltage increases with temperature. 4.3.3 p-i-n Diode In state-of-the-art silicon IC technologies, diodes have highly doped p and n diffusions ..."
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Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells: Technology and Systems Applications
Adolf Goetzberger, Joachim Knobloch, and Bernhard Voss

Excerpt - page 80: "... 80 Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells diodes this is of very little significance, but for solar cells ..."
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Oxide Reliability: A Summary of Silicon Oxide Wearout, Breadown, and Reliability (Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems)
D. J. Dumin

Excerpt - page 69: "... and K. G. McKay, "Photon Emission from Avalanche Breakdown in Silicon", Phys. Rev. 102, 369, 1956. 288. D. J. Dumin, "Emission of Visible Radiation from Extended Plasmas in Silicon Diodes During Second Breakdown," IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, ED-16, 479-485 ..."
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Silicon Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits (Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics)
Horst Zimmermann

Excerpt - page 22: "... [8]. However, deeply diffused doping regions should be avoided in silicon photo- diodes at least for short wavelengths in order to keep the ..."
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Using silicon diodes for detecting the liquid-vapor interface in hydrogen (SuDoc NAS 1.15:105541)
Paula J. Dempsey

Engineering report on operation of silicon diodes in horizontol deflection and high voltage power supply circuits for tower cab displays
C. A Washburn

Direct detection optical intersatellite link at 220 Mbps using AIGaAs lasar diode and silicon APD with 4-ary PPM signaling (SuDoc NAS 1.26:186380)
Xiaoli Sun

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Leslie Berlin

Excerpt - page 121: "... Telettra, a young microwave company. SGS built germanium transistors and silicon diodes and rectifiers in a modern glass-fronted factory located in a ..."
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Nitride Semiconductor Blue Lasers and Light Emitting Diodes
Shuji Nakamura and Shigefusa F. Chichibu

Excerpt - page 136: "... 136 Introduction to Nitride Semiconductor Blue Lasers and Light Emitting Diodes (a) Doping impurities such as silicon and magnesium may segregate at the dislocation core, producing an ..."
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Laser Diode Microsystems (Microtechnology and MEMS)
Hans Zappe

Excerpt - page 5: "... optical microsystem and thereby potentially reduce the fabrication costs. monitor diode silica waveguide laser diode directional coupler fiber a.2 A~2 receiver diode silicon substrate Fig. 13. Schematic top view of the optical transceiver ..."
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A theoretical analysis of steady-state photocurrents in simple silicon diodes (SuDoc NAS 1.26:198885)
L. Edmonds

Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics, Second Edition
Clive Maxfield

Excerpt - page 29: "... direction of current flow (more positive to more negative), the diode will conduct. An individually packaged diode consists of a piece of silicon with connections to external leads, all encapsulated in a protective ..."
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The Piezojunction Effect in Silicon Integrated Circuits and
Fabiano Fruett and Gerard C.M. Meijer

Excerpt - page 32: "... "piezo" transduction effects in silicon [3, 4]. Piezojunction Bipolar transistors Diodes PiezoHall Hall devices Piezo effects in Silicon Piezotunneling Tunnel diodes Piezoresistive Resistors /1P" PiezoMOS MOS transistors Fig. ..."
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Diode Laser Arrays (Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics)
Dan Botez and Don R. Scifres

Excerpt - page 272: "... Manifold layer Glass insert Microchannel layer Water flow Microchannels~ f `Silicon base Diode Glass insert Silicon cover Figure 6.10. The three pieces of ..."
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Effects of nuclear radiation on a high-reliability silicon power diode (NASA technical note) (NASA technical note)
Julian F Been

Diode Laser Materials & Devices - A Worldwide Market & Technology Overview to 2005
R. Szweda

Excerpt - page 10: "... trends that are likely to have some impact on the diode laser substrate market for the ... for violet diode lasers: and GaAs-on-silicon epitaxial growth. There is every chance that once the optoelectronics ..."
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Silicon diodes as temperature transducers (University of Wyoming. Natural Resources Research Institute. Information circular)
Richard W Weeks

Ionization chambers versus silicon diodes and the effective measuring position in cylindrical chambers used for proton dosimetry (Wisconsin medical physics report) (Wisconsin medical physics report)
Chris Constantinou

Spectrophotometry with a self-scanned silicon diode array: III, a catalogue of energy distributions (The University of Texas publications in astronomy) (The University of Texas publications in astronomy)
Anita Light Cochran

Chemical Mechanical Polishing in Silicon Processing, Volume 63 (Semiconductors and Semimetals)
Shin Hwa Li and Robert O. Miller

Excerpt - Back Matter: "... Waltz, and C. Carter, Jr., SiC-Based UV Photodiodes and Light-Emitting Diodes H. MorkoBeyond Silicon Carbide! Ill-V Nitride-Based Heterostructures and Devices Volume 53 Cumulative Subject ..."
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Silicon-Germanium Strained Layers and Heterostructures, Volume 74: Semi-conductor and semi-metals series (Semiconductors and Semimetals)
Suresh Jain and M Willander

Excerpt - Back Matter: "... Waltz, and C. Carter, Jr.. SiC-Based UV Photodiodes and Light-Emitting Diodes H. Morkof, Beyond Silicon Carbide! III-V Nitride-Based Heterostructures and Devices Volume 53 Cumulative Subjects ..."
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Silicon Microchannel Heat Sinks: Theories and Phenomena (Microtechnology and MEMS)
L. Zhang, K.E. Goodson, and T.W. Kenny

Excerpt - Front Matter: "... of Microfabrication Systems By R. Nassar and W. Dai Laser Diode Microsystems By H. Zappe Silicon Microchannel Heat Sinks Theories and Phenomena By L. Zhang, K.E. ..."
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