Hacks of Electronics
If you’ve ever opened up an electronic device – anything from a laptop charger to a pair of gaming headphones – you’ll notice tiny components scattered across the board. Among them, the diode is one of the most essential. It doesn’t look like much, but it plays a massive role in how circuits behave and […]
Definition of Active components: “Active components are those who has the ability to control flow of electrons either by using voltage or by using another current.” Voltage-controlled devices are MOSFETs, vacuum tubes, while current-controlled devices are bipolar junction transistors which allow one current to control another. Active components can be of different types like semiconductor […]
You can see Shockley diode symbol it is a four-layer (P-N-P-N) semiconductor device. Like pn junction diode It conducts in forward bias and stops conducting in reverse bias. The main difference between a conventional diode and a Shockley diode is, it starts conducting when the forward voltage crosses its breakdown voltage. It is an active component. It […]