Perfect diode The feature sizes in conventional microelectronic circuits are getting smaller and smaller and look set to reach the limit imposed by the fundamental properties of silicon in a decade or ...

Since superconducting switches are particularly speedy, a superconducting diode could also lead to faster devices. Scientists have already demonstrated how superconducting diodes could be made. In ...

A trio of scientists, two from Japan and one from the U.S., will share the Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which led to a new, environmentally ...

The Nobel Prize in physics goes to three men who gave us blue light-emitting diodes, used daily in your smartphone screen October 7, 2014 More than 10 years ago ...

It’s conventional to use I s0 = 10 -12 A to 10 -14 A for silicon diodes, but best results may be obtained if its value is derived from a real diode characteristic. 1. Datasheet diode characteristic ...

High-power diode lasers used in physics experiment 17 Jun 2002 Researchers at the University of Michigan are using high-power diode lasers to study the elementary particle structures of neutrons, ...

A trio of Japanese scientists was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday, for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which enabled energy-saving white light sources that can ...

Spectra-Physics' ProLite diode lasers includes a range of products covering the 780 to 980 nm range. Single emitter and fiber-coupled single emitter lasers typically offer several watts of direct ...

STOCKHOLM -- Two Japanese scientists and a Japanese-born American won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for inventing blue light-emitting diodes, a breakthrough that has spurred the ...

Three researchers received the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for the invention of this blue light-emitting diode (LED), a technology now used in high-speed networking, data storage ...

More information: Josep Ingla-Aynés et al, Efficient superconducting diodes and rectifiers for quantum circuitry, Nature Electronics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01375-5 ...

Nakamura, who is based at the University of California at Santa Barbara, shared the Nobel Physics Prize with Japan's Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi for inventing the blue light-emitting diode.