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Definition of Crystal rectifier
1. Noun. A semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction.
Specialized synonyms: Led, Light-emitting Diode
Generic synonyms: Semiconductor, Semiconductor Device, Semiconductor Unit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crystal Rectifier
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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