[Hales] has been on a mission for a while to make his own diodes and put them to use and now he’s succeeded with diodes made of sodium bicarbonate and water, aluminum tape and soldered copper. By ...

ORing diodes are a necessary evil of high-reliability systems. They're used to isolate redundant power sources so a failure of one source won't bring down the entire system. Several inherent problems ...

From International Rectifier (IR), the IR5001S is a universal high-speed controller/n-channel power MOSFET driver for active-ORing circuits. Housed in an SO-8 package, the active-ORing IC is used with ...

International Rectifier has introduced a reference design for +12V, 100A ORing applications. Active ORing has long replaced diode ORing in high current 12V systems due to system efficiency and cost ...

Researchers have invented a new organic polymer tunnel diode -- an electronic component that could one day lead to plastic computer memory and plastic logic circuits on computer chips. Today, computer ...

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Redundant power is a critical component in high availability systems. In the simplest solution, two power supplies can drive a load through diodes to OR their outputs together. In this way, the power ...

Designing automotive electronics presents numerous technical challenges, including the need to protect against electrical hazards under the hood and in the cabin. The three major sources of electrical ...