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1. What is a zener diode?
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2. Define what is zener voltage?
The voltage at which the zener diode breaks down is called
the zener voltage.

3. What is meant by the temperature coefficient?

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The effect of temperature on zener voltage is given in terms
of temperature coefficient which is defined as the
percentage change in nominal zener voltage for each
degree centigrade of change in junction temperature.

4. Define what happens to the series current , load

current and zener current when the dc input voltage of
a zener regulator increases?

Zener current and series current increases while the load

current remains unchanged.

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5. Why is zener diode used as a voltage regulator?

Zener diode has the property of behaving like a dc battery

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voltage across it deops less than VZ . This property of zener

diode makes its use as a voltage regulator.
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6. Explain how zener diode maintains constant voltage

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voltage VZ then zener diode is on ‘on’ state , and any
variation in voltage across the zener diode due to 768 followers

variations either in supply voltage or in load resistance is

not able to change the output voltage. Thus zener diode
maintains voltage constant across the load.

7. Define what is tunnel diode?

Tunnel diode is a high conductivity two-terminal p-n
junction doped heavily (about 1,000 times higher than a
normal diode).

8. What is tunneling?

The mechanism of conduction in a semiconductor diode in

which charge carriers (possessing very little energy) punch
through a barrier directly instead of climbing over it is
called tunneling.

9. What are the applications of tunnel diodes?

Tunnel diodes are used as amplifiers, oscillators or

switching devices, being an exclusive high-frequency
component because of its very fast response inputs.

10. What is PIN diode?

PIN is composed of three sections with a high resistivity

intrinsic layer sandwiched between p and n regions. It
offers a variable resistance (decreasing with the increase in
the forward current) in the forward bias mode and infinite
resistance in the reverse bias mode.

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11. What is a varactor diode?

A varactor diode is a specially fabricated p-n junction with

proper impurity concentration profile and operated under
reverse-biased mode so as to give a variable junction
capacitance.

12. Which device produces voltage variable capacitor?

How the voltage variable capacitance varies with the
change in voltage across it?
The varactor diode produces voltage variable capacitor.
The junction capacitance of a varactor diode varies
inversely as the square root of the reverse bias voltage in
case of alloyed junction and varies inversely as the cube
root of reverse bias voltage for diffuse junction.

13. Define what is point contact diode?

Point connect diode consists of an n-type germanium or

silicon (preferably germanium) wafer about 1.25 mm suare
by 0.5 mm thick, one face of which is soldered to a metal
and the other face has a phosphor bronze or tungsten
spring pressed against it. Because of very low capacitance,
point contact diode is very much suitable for high freuency
applications (of the order of 10 GHz).

14. Define what is a step-recovery diode and why is it so

called ?

Step-recovery diode is a voltage-dependent variable

capacitor diode with graded doping profile (concentration
of charge carriers decreasing near the junction). Because of
step or sudden recovery from the reverse current ON to
reverse current OFF, it is called the step-recovery diode.

15. Define what is Schottky diode?

Schottky diode is uite different in construction from the

normal p-n junction diode. It has metal (such as gold, silver,
platinum , molybdenum, chrome or tungsten ) n one side
and n-type doped silicon on the other side of the junction. It
has no storage charge. The junction barrier is called the
Schottky barrier.

16. Why is Schottky diode called hot-carrier diode?

Since in forward bias operation of the Schottky diode, the

electrons on the n-side gains enough energy to cross the
junction and plunge into the metal with very large energy,
they are usually called into the metal with very large
energy, they are usually called hot carriers and the diode is
called hot-carrier diode.

17. Define what is back diode?

Back diode is similar to a tunnel diode except that

tunneling effect is large but only in the reverse direction.
This is also called a unilateral diode.

18. What are power diodes?

The power diodes are similar to p-n junction signal or low-

power diodes but have large power-, voltage-, and current-
handling capabilities than those of conventional p-n
junction diodes. Power diodes find many applications in
electronics and electrical engineering circuits.’

19. Why the current in power diode varies linearly

rather than exponentially with voltage?

The large magnitude of current in power diodes leads to

ohmic drop that hides the exponential part of the V-I
characteristic curve.

20. Define what is photodiode?

Photodiode is a two-terminal semiconductor p-n junction

diode device and is designed to operate with reverse bias.

21. How the current is reduced to zero in a photodiode?

The reverse saturation current I0 flowing through a

photodiode is reduced to zero by applying a forward bias
voltage of magnitude eual to barrier potential.

22. Photodiode is a photovoltaic device or a

photoconductive device or both?
Photodiode is a photovoltaic device as well as a
photoconductive device. When it is operated with a reverse
bias, it is photoconductive device and when operated
without the reverse bias, it is a photovoltaic device.

23. Define what is meant by LED?

LED stands for Light Emitting Diode.

24. What precautions are reuired to be observed in the

use of LEDs?

LEDs should neither be reverse-biased nor operated near

their maximum current rating. The leads of an LED should
never be bent closer than about 2 mm from the
encapsulation.

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