Definition of Crystal rectifier

1. Noun. A semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Crystal Rectifier

crystal counter
crystal detector
crystal gazing
crystal healing
crystal lattice
crystal lattices
crystal meth
crystal microphone
crystal momentum
crystal oscillator
crystal pickup
crystal radio
crystal rash
crystal rectifier (current term)
crystal set
crystal sets
crystal stone
crystal structure
crystal tea
crystal twinning
crystal violet
crystal violet vaccine
crystalisation
crystalisations
crystalise
crystalised
crystalises
crystalising

Literary usage of Crystal rectifier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Wireless Telegraphy by George Washington Pierce (1910)
"... superposition of a direct current; while the use of the direct current with the crystal rectifier, does not always materially improve the rectification. ..."

2. Principles of Radio Communication by John Harold Morecroft, A. Pinto, Walter Andrew Curry (1921)
"A crystal rectifier has a nearly parabolic ... The crystal rectifier will also act like the vacuum tube in that FIG. 105. — A possible scheme for hearing ..."

3. Practical Wireless Telegraphy: A Complete Text Book for Students of Radio by Elmer Eustice Bucher (1917)
"The most widely used of all detectors is the carborundum crystal rectifier, the tuning circuits for which are shown in Fig. 153a, b, c. ..."

4. Practical Wireless Telegraphy: A Complete Text Book for Students of Radio by Elmer Eustice Bucher (1917)
"149, wherein a crystal rectifier D, connected in series with the antenna A, is shunted by the receiving telephone P. Fig. Simple 149—Circuit of Radio ..."

5. Vacuum Tubes in Wireless Communication: A Practical Textbook for Operators by Elmer Eustice Bucher (1918)
"Another advantage over the simple crystal rectifier is thus secured, viz., increased selectivity due to the following phenomenon. ..."

6. Vacuum Tubes in Wireless Communication: A Practical Textbook for Operators by Elmer Eustice Bucher (1918)
"Another advantage over the simple crystal rectifier is thus secured, viz., increased selectivity due to the following phenomenon. ..."

7. General Physics: An Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by William Suddards Franklin, Barry MacNutt (1916)
"2386, and every alternate half-wave of the secondary current i flows through the crystal rectifier CM and through a telephone receiver. ..."

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