How to Use photodiode in a Sentence

photodiode

noun
  • And that speeds up the photodiode’s switching speed and the system’s data rate.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Nanoholes bend light into the photodiode.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Because the light is traveling the photodiode’s length, not its thickness, the device can be made thin and therefore speedy.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The photodiode cutout is surrounded by a broad metal fill on the back and front of the PCB, with the fills connected by vias.
    — Tim Kuhlbusch, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Normally, photodiodes are used to respond to light, such as the signals used in fiber-optic communications.
    — Tim Kuhlbusch, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Whereas sunlight boils water for the electrical grid, starlight generates a mere trickle of electricity on large photodiodes that are like the cells of a solar panel.
    — Victoria Corless, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • For the power source, the researchers combined the molybdenum disulfide and the tungsten diselenide to create a p-n heterojunction that acts as a photodiode.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2018
  • They must also be outfitted with photodiodes and other necessary optical and electronic devices.
    — Victoria Corless, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But by steering photons into the specially-structured photodiode, the light spends more time interacting with it instead of falling straight through it, leading to higher efficiency.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The difficulty for silicon photodiodes, explains Islam, is the trade-off between speed and efficiency.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Besides the photodiode, each pixel requires circuits to convert the diode’s current into a logarithmic voltage and determine if there’s been an increase or decrease in luminosity.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Each unit also includes micro-LEDs and photodiodes for optical communication.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In practice, given typical conditions and the sensitivity of the photodiodes, this primarily means detecting beta particles.
    — Tim Kuhlbusch, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2024
  • So, silicon photonics systems, which connect racks of servers in data centers via high-data rate optical fiber links, are dependent on photodiode receivers made of germanium or other materials to turn optical signals into electronic ones.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The researchers made a receiver having multiple photodiodes and a narrow-band optical filter to suppress background light, enabling reliable operation in outdoor environments relevant to ITS applications.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026

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