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This is very old germanium diode and nomenclature comes before a standard had been established for semiconductors. They modeled 0A after the vaccum tubes where 0 - zero means 0Volts filament voltage and A meant single diode. Latter , semiconductor nomenclature come where the first number was telling a number of PN junctions followed by N (this is for US), Japanese and Europeans had different naming standards
PN means pressure rating of a pipe....PN is just a symbolic representation....
in a un-doped semiconductor charge carrier can move in any direction under applied potential difference. but when it is doped with p and n type then a junction gets form around which due to concentration gradient depletion region gets formed. now, this pn juncton will conduct current only when forward bias and stops (still leakage current is there) when reverse bias. thus it acts as a rectifier now
Resistor in IC are made of semiconductor structures in a manner similar to transistors and PN junctions
a nonhomogenous distribution of current density through a conductor or semiconductor, especially at the vicinity of the contacts and over the PN junctions.
semiconductor diode with out a pn junction.
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There are two semiconductor junctions. Transistors are designated as NPN or PNP and a diode is an NP or PN junction depending on direction of current flow. However, the function of a transistor is different than two back to back diodes.
The voltage across a forward-biased PN junction in a semiconductor diode or transistor.
A PNP transistor is a bipolar transistor formed by two opposing PN junctions in close proximity.
Diode is made of P and N type semiconductors having PN junction. The question is meanigless.
A PN junction diode is a non-linear component and it consists of two junctions namely P-junction & N-junction where the majority and minority charge carriers are present like electrons and holes. It is also known as a semiconductor diode or PN junction diode. This diode includes two terminals namely anode and cathode, where a p-type semiconductor is an anode (positive voltage) and N-type semiconductors are cathode (negative voltage). The flow of current in the diode is in one direction only because it opposes in another direction with high resistance.
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A diode has a n type and a p type materials that's why it's called a pn-junction device
An NPN device is a bipolar transistor formed by two opposing PN junctions in close proximity.Another answerNPN indicates that the transistor has Negative Positive Negative substrates