Hackaday

Retro Semiconductors: The Silicon Controlled Rectifier

Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is a type of thyristor and they were popular back in the ...
Electronic Design

Controller Lets Designers Replace Rectifier Bridge Diodes With MOSFETs (.PDF Download)

Replacing the silicon rectifier diodes in a full-wave bridge with N-type MOSFETs eliminates the V f drop in each conducting pair. The effects of the gain in efficiency are not trivial. To accomplish ...
EDN

Ideal diode bridge controller efficiently powers MOSFETs

Linear Technology Corporation is claiming a major breakthrough with the introduction of the LT4320, an ideal diode bridge controller for 9V to 72V systems that replaces each of the four diodes in a ...
Electronic Design

Controller Lets Designers Replace Rectifier Bridge Diodes With MOSFETs

With Linear Technology’s LT4320 ideal-diode bridge controller, power supply designers can replace each of the four diodes in a conventional full-wave bridge rectifier with a low-loss N-channel MOSFET.