Thyristors are a semiconductor device with an S-shaped current-voltage characteristic. They are a kind of managed keys with a state memory that are turned on when a control signal is applied to the ...

The term thyristor has a very logical etymology. Many years ago, I was talking to a colleague, Ed Owen, who was the GE historian at the time and I asked him if he knew why we used the terms valve and ...

NPN transistors are key components in electronics, used as switches or amplifiers with three legs: base, collector, and emitter. Thyristors are semiconductor switches with three legs: gate, anode ...