How to Use diode in a Sentence

diode

noun
  • My blue diode laser cutter isn't that fast, not even on cardstock.
    — New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2026
  • And my blue diode is even wider at 80-100 microns.
    — New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Paul Rothchild, who was our producer, looked in his bag and pulled out a diode.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Their round eyes and satisfied grins are rendered with light emitting diodes.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 26 June 2023
  • In each bulb are red, white, green and blue diodes, which can be mixed and matched to create any number of colors.
    — USA TODAY, 25 June 2019
  • The new display shines red, green, and blue laser diodes at a spatial light modulator.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2024
  • The price of the bulb’s fundamental component, the blue diode, had crashed.
    — The Economist, 4 Jan. 2020
  • Depending on how many grids the tube has, it is called a diode (no grids), a triode (one grid), a tetrode (two grids), and so on.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2020
  • That means the alternator bearings are spinning and the diode bridge is working.
    — Ray Magliozzi, courant.com, 15 June 2018
  • The speed controller, employing diodes and relays, was pretty advanced for the time.
    — Kevin A. Wilson, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Zhu is working on diodes that convert electricity into light.
    — Margi Murphy, Fox News, 1 June 2017
  • At many practices, there’s no difference in cost between the YAG and diode.
    — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 20 Aug. 2018
  • The other bit that the researchers mention in passing is that this system cannot currently be powered by laser diodes.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2018
  • For 10 years, Baker has run clean-room training courses during which students make a diode.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Its systems can deposit layers of chemicals just atoms thick that grow the crystals needed to make chips and light-emitting diodes.
    — Paul Mozur and Jack Ewing, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2016
  • Light-emitting diodes glow 18 hours a day, providing the equivalent of full sunshine.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The secret to MicroLED is the tiny trio of diodes—red, green and blue—which make up each pixel.
    — David Pierce, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019
  • Osram’s contribution to the lidar system is a laser chip whose four diodes were all made in one piece, then separated.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Nov. 2016
  • As a teenager, David worked an after-school job for his father, testing diodes and semiconductors in the house’s garage.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 11 May 2023
  • State-of-the-art aluminum nitride diodes are tested at Nagoya University.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The diode also takes a reading with the LEDs shut off, to measure the sunlight that is passing through the leaf from above.
    — New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The researchers suggest this could lead to new ways of creating atomic-scale superconducting diodes.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • LEDs work by sending electricity through a diode that generates light without much heat.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Moreover, the power relay and a diode are integrated to manage power flow and protect the system.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Plus, the diodes are intentionally arranged with more in the middle and fewer on the edges in order to uniformly dispense light.
    — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Asymmetric contacts such as Pd-Sc were used for the optoelectronic diode.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Such tools are very different from those used in a laser-diode foundry, where the typical wafer diameter is considerably smaller.
    — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Osram supplies laser diodes for devices such as the Apple Watch and iris scanners used in Samsung smartphones.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2019
  • Nano-scale light control Each diode is approximately 100 times smaller than a human cell.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The team selected a multimode laser diode, which is widely used in medical and industrial equipment.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025

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