By putting in four layers, instead of the three used in transistors, the Shockley Diode could do more than a transistor. For one, it acted like a rectifier, able to turn alternating current into ...

First he guaranteed he was working with a DC power source by inserting a small full-wave bridge rectifier ... for backlighting he used some 1978 vintage current limiting diodes designed to ...

Because of this I’ve used 1N4001 diodes to make the bridge rectifier. Bridge rectifiers are also known as full-wave rectifiers because they take the alternating current and use both parts of the ...