Description: The Silicon Carbide (SiC) UV APD has many of the properties of other APDs in that it is extremely sensitive and has high signal gain, but is only sensitive to UV (see wavelength response ...

In order to help his friend prepare for a talk at DEFCON this weekend, [Craig] built an IR photodiode amplifier circuit. The circuit extended the detection range of the hack from a few inches to ...

Photodiodes are a two-electrode, radiation-sensitive junction formed in a semiconductor material in which the reverse current varies with illumination. Photodiodes are used for the detection of ...

Investopedia / Yurle Villegas A Lorenz curve, developed by American economist Max Lorenz in 1905, is a graphical representation of income inequality or wealth inequality. The graph plots ...

Leveraging the company’s 180nm XS018 CMOS semiconductor process, which has been specifically optimised for the fabrication of sensors, four new high-performance photodiodes have now been made ...

A G-M tube is not the only game in town though, and even the humble photodiode can be pressed into service. [Robert] gives us a good example, with a self-contained radiation detector head that ...

Perawit Boonchu / Getty Images The Coppock Curve (CC) was introduced by economist Edwin Coppock in an October 1962 issue of Barron's. While useful, the indicator is not commonly discussed among ...

Dipen Pradhan is a Staff Reporter for Forbes Advisor India. He has more than 10 years of experience in journalism. He covers the personal finance beat. When he is not writing, he enjoys ...

To construct the tangent to a curve at a certain point A, you draw a line that follows the general direction of the curve at that point. An example of this can be seen below. Once the tangent is ...

The event – commonly dubbed a yield curve inversion – was largely viewed as a signal the U.S. economy would likely slip into recession in the near future. An inverted yield curve occurs when ...