To the rescue of those 1950s designers came the humble diode. They were cheaper and far more reliable than a point-contact transistor, and capable of forming AND and OR gates with only resistors ...

This kind of thinking would be as important as science for the invention of the transistor ... Fleming made a vacuum tube known today as a diode. Then the diode was known as a "valve," because ...

The four-layer diode was the key to William Shockley's plan to revolutionize AT&T's phone system. It was a great device in theory, but not in practice -- at least not at the time when Shockley ...

For example, you can insert a resistor, a capacitor, an inductor, a diode, or a transistor and get a readout of which pin is which. It seems like magic, but [Andreas Spiess] did the research on ...

Bipolar devices, such as pn diodes and bipolar junction transistors, hold promising potential in the high-power electronics ...

Most modern electronic devices consist of several key components: transistors, capacitors, resistors, inductors and diodes. Often, they are supplemented by additional components like crystals and ...