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Name: The Diode
ID: m0037
Language: English (en)
Summary: A brief description of a diode and its inner workings.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: circuit, diode, forward bias, leakage current, nonlinear, reverse bias
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0

Authors: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu), Roy Ha (rha@alumni.rice.edu), Benjamin Fite (bfite@rice.edu)

Latest version: 2.17 (history)
First publication date: Jul 20, 2000 12:00 am -0500
Last revision to module: May 16, 2013 8:16 am -0500

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Version History

Version: 2.17 May 16, 2013 8:16 am -0500 by Don Johnson
Changes:
Fixed typo.

Version: 2.16 Jul 6, 2009 6:15 pm -0500 by Don Johnson
Changes:
Fixed diode2.ong

Version: 2.15 Jun 4, 2009 12:00 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes:
Modified markup for explicit .eps image reference

Version: 2.14 Apr 25, 2005 8:16 pm -0500 by Charlet Reedstrom
Changes:
update to cnxml-0.5, fix typo

Version: 2.13 Jun 26, 2002 12:00 am -0500 by (Unknown)
Changes:
updated module

Version: 2.12 Mar 27, 2002 12:00 am -0600 by (Unknown)
Changes:
changed units per discussion in module club

Version: 2.11 Mar 6, 2002 12:00 am -0600 by (Unknown)
Changes:
edited math and cnxml

Version: 2.10 Sep 17, 2001 12:00 am -0500 by (Unknown)
Changes:
Added link to 305 description of diode.

Version: 2.9 Sep 11, 2001 12:00 am -0500 by Brent Hendricks
Changes:
Converted to CNXML 0.3.5

Version: 2.8 Aug 23, 2001 12:00 am -0500 by (Unknown)
Changes:
fixed punctuation whitespace issues

Version: 2.7 Aug 22, 2001 12:00 am -0500 by (Unknown)
Changes:
Fixed figure reference error

Version: 2.6 Aug 20, 2001 12:00 am -0500 by (Unknown)
Changes:
Concatenated with 0058 and 0059.

Version: 2.5 Aug 20, 2001 12:00 am -0500 by (Unknown)
Changes:
I re-uploaded all the images and their corresponding eps files.

Version: 2.4 Jul 17, 2001 12:00 am -0500 by (Unknown)
Changes:
Fixed id and date.

Version: 2.3 Jul 17, 2001 12:00 am -0500 by (Unknown)
Changes:
Remodularized, some minor fixes.

Version: 2.2 May 30, 2001 12:00 am -0500 by (Unknown)
Changes:
Put multi-word keywords in correct order

Version: 2.1 May 24, 2001 12:00 am -0500 by (Unknown)
Changes:
Updated module to cnxml ver. 0.3

Version: 2.0 Jul 20, 2000 12:00 am -0500 by Brent Hendricks
Changes:
Bumped version to 2.0

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