How to Use diode in a Sentence

diode

noun

• 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
• Paul Rothchild, who was our producer, looked in his bag and pulled out a diode.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2021
• The price of the bulb’s fundamental component, the blue diode, had crashed.
  — The Economist, 4 Jan. 2020
• 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 safest laser for permanent hair removal on darker skin is the Nd:YAG or diode laser.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
• At many practices, there’s no difference in cost between the YAG and diode.
  — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 20 Aug. 2018
• The new display shines red, green, and blue laser diodes at a spatial light modulator.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2024
• 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
• Their round eyes and satisfied grins are rendered with light emitting diodes.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 26 June 2023
• LED Light-emitting diode devices give off a narrow range of a specific wavelength of light.
  — Allure, 17 Aug. 2018
• 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
• Light-emitting diodes glow 18 hours a day, providing the equivalent of full sunshine.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• 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
• The diode and Nd:YAG lasers, however, have longer wavelengths and generally bypass pigment in the skin.
  — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 25 Jan. 2022
• Osram supplies laser diodes for devices such as the Apple Watch and iris scanners used in Samsung smartphones.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2019
• In their picture, the whole system is powered by a couple of diode lasers—slightly more expensive versions of the lasers used in CD players.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2018
• 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
• State-of-the-art aluminum nitride diodes are tested at Nagoya University.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
• Unfortunately, much of the light LEDs produce remains trapped within the inner surfaces of the diode.
  — Mary Hoff, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2014
• The structures were installed in 2000 and updated five years later, when the original lamps were replaced with light-emitting diodes, or LEDs.
  — Kim Christensen, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• 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
• More recently, a technology called OLED (aka organic light emitting diode) has hit the high end of the market.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019
• In terms of technology, at-home handheld hair removal devices come in two categories: IPL or a diode laser.
  — elle.com, 6 May 2023
• There are various kinds, including diode, alexandrite, and Nd:YAG.
  — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
• The Lumenis LightSheer laser, one of the most popular diode lasers out there, even has a suction mechanism to distract your attention from the pain.
  — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 20 Aug. 2018
• The day the PS3 was launched in Japan, long queues formed at electronics stores where, thanks to problems manufacturing blue laser diodes, Sony had restricted supplies of the machine.
  — Momus, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2006
• These detectors are called single-photon avalanche diodes.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2018
• Inside the container is a pulsing light source (LED, laser diode, or similar small device) that transmits through the fiber and hits a detector at the end of the fiber called a photodetector.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2022
• In order to split this light into the whole spectrum of colors that creates white light, manufacturers paint a material called phosphor onto the diodes inside the bulb.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024