Here is a diode which is used commonly in a simple device like a home DC to AC converter, not in complex device.That has two poles on the each end and is black , cylinderically shaped ,and smaller than a pea.Can you see it?
Cut the middle of its anode part .And then connect each part throught a good conductor like copper. If do so, Can the diode operate?
2006-11-14 20:13:26 · 4 answers · asked by Jackson K 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Here is a diode which is used commonly in a simple device like a home DC to AC converter, not in complex device.That has two poles on the each end and is black , cylinderically shaped ,and smaller than a pea.Can you see it?
Cut the middle of its anode part .And then connect each part throught a good conductor like copper. If do so, Can the diode operate?
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I mentioned not PN junction but the middle of anode or cathiode . not Schottky diodes.
2006-11-14 20:59:36 · update #1
I don't think it would work. A diode works on principles of quantum physics that require the internal junction to be manufactures according to certain specifications. Putting a copper conductor on between the junctions would destroy all the effects that make it a diode; that is assuming you managed to cut it exactly at the junction.
By the way what where you planning to do with such an idea?
2006-11-14 20:26:16 · answer #1 · answered by Franlee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if it is an MD!
If you could break the PN junction and place metal between them you would have a shottkey diode which has lower on voltage.
2006-11-14 20:34:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about a sketch or drawing?
2006-11-15 02:43:50 · answer #3 · answered by frieburger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably not
2006-11-14 20:20:16 · answer #4 · answered by Robert F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋