| 1. | This improvement was accomplished largely through improvements in silicon diode technology.
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| 2. | With the availability of affordable silicon diode rectifiers, alternators were used instead.
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| 3. | However, the rapid development of the silicon diode made it ultimately redundant.
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| 4. | In 1961 the mercury arc tubes were replaced by replaced by silicon diode rectifiers.
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| 5. | For output voltages above ten volts or so, ordinary silicon diodes are commonly used.
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| 6. | Here is some detailed experimental data, which shows this for a 1N4005 silicon diode.
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| 7. | Unfortunately, the silicon diode's different characteristics caused the automatic gain control circuit to fail.
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| 8. | Also, the driving circuit can have silicon diodes mounted in thermal contact with the output transistors to provide compensation.
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| 9. | You should use two LEDs in antiparallel or place an ordinary silicon diode in antiparallel with the LED, though.
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| 10. | Wide-gap solid-state devices or vacuum devices with high-cutoff photocathodes can be attractive compared to silicon diodes.
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