Shockley diode
Diodo Shockley
- Date
- c. 1956-1959 · confidence low
- Place
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Credited to
- William Shockley
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Physicist William Shockley designed at his semiconductor laboratory a four-layer PNPN diode with negative resistance, equivalent to a gateless thyristor, marketed in the late 1950s before being superseded by the DIAC.
What it led to
- Development of the thyristor and DIAC
- Solid-state switching circuits
- Advances in semiconductor power electronics