the Shockley Diode could do more than a transistor. For one, it acted like a rectifier, able to turn alternating current into direct current. Two, it switched on and off when a specific amount of ...

This kind of thinking would be as important as science for the invention of the transistor ... for radio sets which needed to turn alternating current into direct current. The vacuum tube didn ...

In the future, Europe is to be dominantly powered by renewable energy. The expansion of wind and solar power capacity and the provision of sufficient power in winter are just two of the challenges ...

An alternating current in a primary winding induces an ... because the simplest way to do that is to drive a primary winding from a transistor or maybe two transistors whose base is in turn ...