What is an energy diode?
The power diode is a crystalline semiconductor device used mainly to convert AC current (AC) to direct current (DC), which is a process known as rectification. It is located in the power circuits of virtually all modern electrical and electronic equipment, the function of the power diode is similar to the mechanical one -way valve. It performs an electric current with a minimum resistance in one direction, known as its direction forward, preventing the current current in the opposite direction. Power diodes, which are usually able to pass up to several hundred amps ahead, have much larger P-N intersections, and thus a higher power capacity than their smaller related signaling diodes used in consumer electronics to regulate and reduce current. As a result, power diodes are better suitable for applications where there are larger currents and higher voltages. They are evaluated according to the maximum current that they can carry in the direction of the forward and maximum reverse voltage that lasts. Due to the resistance there is a low voltage drop at the PrinceElectric current through the energy diode in the forward direction. On the contrary, the power diode can only withstand a certain amount of voltage flowing in the opposite direction to disintegrate and stop functioning.
Power diodes are mainly made of silicon, although small number of other materials such as Boron, Gallium arsenide, Germanium or phosphorus are also used. The only energy diode can be used to convert AC into DC, but it creates what is called half the DC wave variable. More often, two or three or three or more diodes are connected in the district to create a variable DC in a full wave. The most important of these is the bridge rectifier in which the four connected diodes convert both positive and negative parts of ACVLNA into DC, creating a full wave rectification.
Electric energy tools in the world usually use three -phase AC to distribute electricity. Although it adds different DCs from incomingThe AC current, all wave or bridge rectifier does not bring DC at a constant voltage necessary to power most modern electrical and electronic devices. Therefore, the reservoir capacitor is usually connected to the output end of the rectifier to smooth the undulating voltage. For example, in a typical American household, a three -phase alternating current from the electrical main circuits passes through three pairs of energy diodes. The resulting DC is then smoothed and supplied at voltage sufficiently constant for use by passing it through the extermination capacitor.