What is a PIN avalanche photodiode (APD)? What is a PIN photodiode? How to characterize avalanche breakdown in GaN. Major differences exist between a PIN photodiode and an avalanche photodiode (APD), ...

In the field of power electronics, the compound semiconductors gallium nitride and silicon carbide are dominating the market. Due to its beneficial properties, gallium arsenide is gaining more and ...

Many hardware people around these parts will be familiar with devices used as switches, using at least three-terminals to effect this, an input, an output and a gate. Typical devices that spring to ...

This is a PIN diode based RF signal attenuator circuit operates with 1MHz – 500MHz input. PIN diodes are one of the most common parts used in RF applications generally as switches in transmitter and ...

Microsemi's new MPS2R10-606 switch provides frequency coverage from 100 megahertz (MHz) to 1 gigahertz (GHz) with 0.2 decibel (dB) insertion loss, 15 dB return loss and 55 dB of isolation at mid-band.

The high-speed, 11-bit 349-series of PIN diode attenuators covers the 1.0 to 18 GHz range. Operating over octave frequency bands, the digitally controlled attenuators switch in less than 300 ns. Both ...

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teledyne e2v HiRel today announced two new additions to its family of high power limiters, the TDLM052402, a quasi-active, 2 kW, L/S/C-band SMT PIN Diode Limiter and ...