To illustrate a basic diode switch, we’ve prepared a couple of simplified circuit diagrams. The first shows the anode tied to ground through R1 and the cathode tied to the Vcc power rail.

In his first experiment, he turned this broken light bulb into a diode by using the disconnected filament as the anode, and the burning filament as the cathode. [Marcel] attached a 1M resistor and ...

When an applied voltage forces the diode to conduct electrons from the anode to the cathode it is operating in a forward bias condition. When the applied potential does not allow for a sharp increase ...

General purpose diodes are two-terminal electronic components that allow current to flow in only one direction, from an anode (+) to a cathode. These simple semiconductors are PN junctions with a ...

Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) have gained significant attention since ... The basic structure of an OLED consists of an emissive layer, a conductive layer, an anode, and a cathode. When a ...

The comments by Pei and Heeger on our paper published in Nature Materials 1 call for a clarification of the mechanism of the operation of light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEECs). The simplest ...