Diodes for Switching
Guy Hugues Fontaine · 1971
Diodes and transistors consist essentially of junctions associated with resistive elements. Their behaviour depends on the signal applied to their terminals. The behaviour of these junctions depends on the behaviour of the signal applied to their terminals and may produce capacitance effects with small signals or inductive effects with large signals. Before explaining the origin of these different effects, knowing the importance of the majority and minority carrier density graphs, a discussion of the physical principles which help to study the static behaviour of a junction would seem appropriate.