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LEDs Explained: Light Emission in Semiconductor Devices

This video explains how LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) function and why they are widely used in modern electronics. LEDs ...
Electronic Design

E-Fuses, Ideal Diodes Overcome Shortfalls of Traditional Supply-Protection Devices

Among passive electronic components, the fuse and diode are well known, well understood, widely used, and essential to many circuits and systems. Still, each has inherent shortcomings that make them ...
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Thermal diode can control direction of heat flow

We’re all familiar with semiconductor diodes, whose function is to allow electricity to easily flow in one direction and impede its progress in the other. A thermal diode performs a similar gating ...
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Semiconductors Explained: Band Gap, Doping, and Function

This video explains how semiconductors work and how their electrical properties are controlled through energy band gaps and ...
Electronic Design

IGBT and Diode Function on Single Chip Delivers Enhanced Reliability

Infineon Technologies AG recently launched a 6.5 kV power module that features IGBT and freewheeling diode functionality integrated into a single chip. Infineon Technologies AG recently launched a 6.5 ...