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Two-terminal electronic component
A diode is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts electric current primarily in one direction. It has low resistance in one direction and high resistance in the other. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: DiodeA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A three-dimensional liquid diode for soft, integrated permeable electronicsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Semiconductors and semimetalsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Extraction of Schottky diode parameters from forward current-voltage characteristicsCited 2,724 times
- Go sideways: Schottky diodeA closely related topic
- Go sideways: P–n junctionA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
Noun An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Extraction of Schottky diode parameters from forward current-voltage characteristics
Repeated temperature modulation epitaxy for p-type doping and light-emitting diode based on ZnO
Switchable Ferroelectric Diode and Photovoltaic Effect in BiFeO 3
Large-signal analysis of a silicon Read diode oscillator
Injection and detection of a spin-polarized current in a light-emitting diode
Stretchable active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display using printable elastic conductors
An aluminium nitride light-emitting diode with a wavelength of 210 nanometres
Narrowband deep-blue organic light-emitting diode featuring an organoboron-based emitter
🆕 Influential since 2022
A three-dimensional liquid diode for soft, integrated permeable electronics
The field-free Josephson diode in a van der Waals heterostructure
Intrinsic Superconducting Diode Effect
Supercurrent diode effect and finite-momentum superconductors
Josephson diode effect from Cooper pair momentum in a topological semimetal
đź“š Books worth reading
Semiconductors and semimetalsRobert K. Willardson · 1971- 📕Practical Lighting Design with LEDsRon Lenk, Carol Lenk · 2011
Light-emitting diodesE. Fred Schubert · 2003- 📕Understanding LED IlluminationM. Nisa Khan · 2013
Organic light-emitting diodesJan Kalinowski · 2004
Laser diodes and their applications to communications and information processingTakahiro Numai · 2010
Light-emitting diodesKlaus P. Streubel, Heonsu Jeon · 2007- 📕LED LightingT. Q. Khan, P. Bodrogi · 2014
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