CMOS chips are vulnerable to electrostatic discharge (ESD) due to thin gate oxides used, and therefore, protection devices are required at input pads. Larger size is preferable for the protection ...

Toshiba Electronics Europe is expanding its surge protection Zener diodes line up with the addition of four new products.

Diodes let electricity flow in only one direction, protecting and controlling how circuits work. This video explains what ...

Antiferromagnetic (AF) materials are made up of atoms or molecules with atomic spins that align in antiparallel directions of ...

Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) semiconductor lasers are highly sought for medical, biotechnology, and precision manufacturing applications; however, previous UV-B laser diodes were limited to pulsed operation ...

Now researchers in Japan have reported the world’s first continuous-wave UV-B semiconductor laser diode operating at room temperature on a low-cost sapphire substrate. This breakthrough by researchers ...

The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology behind flexible cell phones, curved monitors, and televisions could one ...

Over the years, we’ve seen some modern microcontrollers turn out to be 5V-tolerant – now, RP2040 joins the crowd. Half a year ago, when we covered an ISA card based on a Pi Pico, [Eben Upton] left a ...

Abstract: The ESD robustness of planar Si and Ge diodes on Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) optical interposer is studied by using TLP and vfTLP system. Although Ge diodes show a lower failure current, a ...

This chapter discusses electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection in radio frequency (RF) technology. In the ESD design discipline of RF circuits, there is a fundamental difference in the focus and ...