Diodes
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Noisecom's noise diodes are the fundamental building blocks for analog noise systems. They are categorized for performance characteristics that enhance their broadband noise output and flat spectral response.
dB Control’s high-power, environmentally-sealed broadband and narrow band RF PIN Diode switches and assemblies ensure accurate test and measurement of multiple RF components used in radar systems, electronic warfare systems, ground-based communications systems, and other applications.
The HLM-8011 is a high-power GaAs Schottky diode signal limiter featuring high IP3 and high power handling. It offers low insertion loss and low return loss from DC through Ka band and has a typical 1dB compression point of +10dBm.
The HLM-20PSM is a high-power GaAs Schottky diode signal limiter featuring high IP3 over a broad DC - 20GHz bandwidth.
ABOUT
A diode is a tiny piece of electronic equipment usually found on circuit boards and transistors that do a simple job. Diodes are to make current flow in only one direction. It’s a very simple thing that most people take for granted. It allows current to flow one way – which is called zero resistance, but it becomes infinitely resistive in the other way, thereby blocking any current to flow in the other direction.
Imagine attaching a diode to an alternating current source. In alternating current, electricity flows in one way, then in the other. If a diode were to be placed in the circuit, the alternating current would then be converted to direct current. This would happen because when the circuit is directing traffic in one way the diode will allow the current to pass. However, when it oscillates to the other way, the diode will block it. As such, the circuit will only see current flowing in one way downstream from the diode.
Diodes are built in a vacuum chamber where there is an electrode and an anode plate inside. It has a similar structure to a capacitor except where the capacitor is meant to accumulate a charge, a diode is meant to direct it in only one way. It is possible to place a diode and a capacitor in a series to get a situation where a charge is built up in the capacitor with e direct current then discharge at a certain threshold downstream. The combinations and the resulting outcomes with various diodes can be made to do almost any command and control function of a circuit board.