Rectifier: A rectifier is a circuit that is used for converting AC supply into unidirectional DC supply.  The advantages of a full ...

Transistor Biasing: Transistor biasing is the process of setting a transistors DC operating voltage or current conditions to the correc...

Barrier voltage of a diode: The barrier voltage is the amount of electromotive force required to start current through the p-n juncti...

The characteristics of LASER diode are-  (i) The wavelength of the laser spectral line with the greatest intensity. (ii) The forwa...

BJT FET (i) BJT is a current controlled device. (i) FET is a voltage controlled device. ...

(i) For bipolar junction transistor the point chosen to keep the transistor operating in the active mode, using a variety of circuit tec...

The characteristics of LED:  (i) LED chip’s PN junction is biased in a forward direction. (ii) Free charged is forced (overcome v...

p-type material n-type material (i) p-type material is created by introducing impurity elements that...

The conductivity of n-type and p-type semiconductors is given below:  (i) n-type conductivity: The current conduction in an n-type ...

Intrinsic semiconductor: Intrinsic materials are those semiconductors that have been carefully refined to reduce the impurities to a ve...

Cut-in voltage of diode: The forward bias voltage for which the majority carriers can overcome the barrier potential and cross the de...

Differentiate between LED and zener diode LED Zener diode (i) A light-emitting diode is a diode that g...

Ideal diode: An ideal diode is a diode that acts like a perfect conductor when voltage is applied forward biased and like a perfect ins...

Light emitting diode (LED): A light emitting diode (LED) is a diode that gives off visible light when forward biased. The constru...

The working principle of half-wave rectifier: The working principle of Half wave rectifier is quite simple i.e. convert alternating ...

The working principle of zener diode: Working principle of zener Diode: When a PN junction diode is reversed biased the depletion ...