Electrical junction
- For containers that protect a building's electrical connections, see Junction box.
An electrical junction may be either a thermoelectricity junction, a metal–semiconductor junction or a p–n junction (p-type semiconductor–n-type semiconductor junction). Junctions are either rectifying or non-rectifying. Non-rectifying junctions are called ohmic contacts. Electronic components employing rectifying junctions include p–n diodes, Schottky diodes and bipolar junction transistors.
See also
- Heterojunction
- Homojunction
- Depletion region, also called junction region
- p–n junction isolation
- Break junction
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, August 09, 2012. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.