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A single crystal of semiconductor material, part doped with N type impurities and part doped with P type impurities, with the N and P types meeting at a single junction. This junction conducts only when forward biased.

Such a diode may be an independent discrete component or it may be part of an integrated circuit (in which case the entire integrated circuit is the single crystal).

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