4.1.1 Semi Conductors Flashcards
What is a diode?
Two terminal electronic components
What does the diode do?
Conducts current in a single direction by applying low resistance in one direction and high in the other.
In a schematic symbol for a diode what is the arrow end?
Anode
In a schematic symbol for a diode what is the bar end?
Cathode
What does a generic diode symbol look like?
Line with an arrow and bar.
What does a schottky diode symbol look like?
Line with an arrow and ‘s’ bar (tips of s curl round)
What does a shockley diode symbol look like?
Line with two bars and a diagonal connecting the two.
What does a constant current diode symbol look like?
Line with an arrow and an ‘I’ bar
What does a zener diode symbol look like?
Not to be confused with a schottky, it is a line with an arrow and ‘s’ bar but the ends don’t curl.
What does a light emitting diode symbol look like?
Line with arrow and bar, surrounded by circle and arrows pointing away.
What does a photo diode symbol look like?
Line with arrow and bar, surrounded by circle and arrows pointing towards.
What does a step recovery diode symbol look like?
Line with an arrow and ‘L’ shaped bar.
What does a tunnel diode symbol look like?
Line with an arrow and backwards ‘c’ bar
What does a varactor diode symbol look like?
Line with an arrow and double bar
What does a Pin diode symbol look like?
Line with an arrow and bar, between them is a little square.
What does a vacuum tube diode symbol look like?
Completely different to the rest, big circle with a load of squiggles.
What are diodes susceptible too?
Electro static discharge
What are diodes made of?
Semi conductors
What can semiconductors be manufactured as?
Single discrete devices- diodes and transistors
Multiple- fully integrated circuits
What is a fundamental semiconductor device?
Positive negative junction diode
How are positive negative diodes fabricated?
Doping together two sides of a single crystal semiconductor with opposite impurities.
In a positive negative junction diode with side of the junction has an excess of electrons?
Negative
Diodes can be thought of as check valves, how do they decide whether to ‘block’ the current or let it through?
Depletion layer
What is a depletion layer?
When P and N materials are bonded together, electrons migrate to fill holes on the p side, leaving a depletion zone.
What is the depletion zone sometimes referred too as?
Barrier region
What is a diode being forward bias doing?
Conducting
What is a diode being reverse bias doing?
Insulating