: an electronic device that has two electrodes or terminals and is used especially as a rectifier
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The stock — which is focused on organic light emitting diode, or OLED, technologies — has slid 22% in 2024.
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Alex Harring, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
With prototypes including nanoscale to microscale transistors and diodes, the researchers suggest their research might help greatly simplify electronics production.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2024
Like gallium and germanium, antimony is also used to manufacture semiconductor devices, such as infrared sensors and diodes.
—Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
The diode also takes a reading with the LEDs shut off, to measure the sunlight that is passing through the leaf from above.
—New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2024
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Alex Harring, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
With prototypes including nanoscale to microscale transistors and diodes, the researchers suggest their research might help greatly simplify electronics production.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2024
Like gallium and germanium, antimony is also used to manufacture semiconductor devices, such as infrared sensors and diodes.
—Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
The diode also takes a reading with the LEDs shut off, to measure the sunlight that is passing through the leaf from above.
—New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2024
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diode
noun
di·ode
ˈdī-ˌōd 
: an electronic device with two electrodes that is used especially for changing alternating current into direct current
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