Opto-Electronics

High Eff Solar Cells SunPower discussion on achieving 21% conversion efficiency
Laser Diodes Specs for a variety of laser diodes as well as IR/Red pulls from DVD writers
LEDs, care and feeding It's all about giving LEDs the current they want!
Neon V-I Graph of the current vs voltage negative resistance characteristic of neon lamps
Photo Sensors Characteristics of various compound semiconductor sensors
Solar Panels AstroPower solar panels, now owned by GE Solar
Solar Panel Power Data showing peak power delivery is when open circuit voltage (OCV) is 1.5 times load voltage
Ripple clock Circuit to extract line frequency clock from the ripple on the output of an unregulated AC to DC adapter.

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 This page last updated on August 05, 2010