The symbol for an LED is shown in Figure. The basic operation of the light-emitting diode (LED) is as follows.…
The junction capacitance of diodes varies with the amount of reverse bias. Varactor diodes are specially designed to take advantage of…
Zener diodes can be used in ac applications to limit voltage swings to desired levels. Below Figures shows three basic ways…
The zener diode can be used as a type of voltage regulator for providing stable reference voltages. In this section, you…
The symbol for a zener diode is shown in Below Figure. Instead of a straight line representing the cathode, the zener…
The device which operates at above 30V is called an electrical device and the device which operates with less than…
A multimeter can be used as a fast and simple way to check a diode out of the circuit. A good…
The addition of still another diode-capacitor section to a Voltage trippler, as shown in Below Figure, produces an output four times…
The addition of another diode-capacitor section to the half-wave voltage doubler creates a voltage tripler, as shown in Below Figure. The…
Voltage multipliers use clamping action to increase peak rectified voltages without the necessity of increasing the transformer’s voltage rating. Multiplication factors…