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the bouncer of electronics, letting current in one door and never out.
means A two-terminal electronic component that allows electric current to flow in one direction while blocking it in the other.
from Coined in the early 20th century from Greek roots: 'di-' meaning two and 'hodos' meaning way or path — literally a 'two-way' (or, more pointedly, a two-terminal) device. The naming follows the same pattern as 'electrode' and 'triode,' and is generally credited to the British physicist William Eccles around 1919, as vacuum-tube electronics were taking shape.
- one-way street
- Blocks reverse current like a turnstile
- LED cousin
- Light-emitting diodes are just diodes that glow
- forward voltage
- Silicon ones need 0.7 volts to wake up
- rectifier role
- Turns wild AC into tame DC
- zener twist
- Some break backward on purpose to regulate voltage
for instance
schottky barrier diode — low forward voltage drop diode used in power supplies and rf circuits