and it lies at the heart of a domestic microwave oven. They usually need a high-voltage mains transformer and a rectifier to work, but [Hyperspace Pirate] has managed to make a solid-state power ...

You reach for the microwave meal ... to convert it to full-wave by doubling up the high voltage transformer and rectification diodes. While this worked, the poor suffering magnetron didn ...

Silicon PIN diodes have been the most important semiconductor component used for the control of microwave signals for many years ... of the I-layer necessary to support a moderate breakdown voltage (i ...

Gallium Arsenide has several advantages over Silicon when making fast PIN diodes of similar dimensions. GaAs also has a few major disadvantages which limit the type of devices that can be produced.