Harold_V said:
....We have done our very best to prevent this forum from losing its credibility----which we do by presenting fact, not fiction.
Harold
He kind of lost my interest with the claim of a “new replacement for THE DIODE”. The current state of technology is actually pretty darn good – so I have a difficult time accepting that someone having trouble identifying a capacitor type would be likely to have improved upon the existing parameters:
Lower forward and reverse recovery? (currently essentially zero)
Switching behavior vs temperature? (current performance independent of temperature)
Higher electrical breakdown field? (current technology 10x more than Si & GaAs)
Higher thermal conductivity? (current technology over 3x that of Si & almost 10x GaAs)
Improved bandgap? (bandgap of current technology 3X that of silicon)
Higher temperature or frequency range? (operating temperature range up to 300oC and frequencies currently in excess of 1MHz)
Positive temperature coefficient of VF? (already there)
Easily paralleled for higher current? (already there)
I utilize tens of thousands of diodes annually in extreme applications – and my job depends on them NEVER “burning out”. I would be very interested to learn how a new replacement might improve on the diodes already available off-the-shelf. Maybe they’re made from the element ‘Un’ (Unobtainium)?