On Monday 18 June 2018 19:24:14 Jim Lee wrote: > On 06/18/2018 04:09 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > > Peter Otten wrote: > >> "folk etymology" would be the retrofitting of the exotic "Schottky" > >> into two familiar words "shot" and "key". Sometimes the writer > >> assumes that these words are somehow related to the labeled object. > > > > Well, there is a thing called "shot noise", and you can probaby > > get it from a Shottky diode under some circumstances, but > > Shottky is definitely someone's name. (Walter H. Shottky, to > > be specific.) > > FWIW, we used to call them barrier diodes, or sometimes hot carrier > diodes, until the name "Schottky" became commonplace in, what, the mid > 80s or so? > > -Jim
More like the early 70's. I spent from 70, to late 77 keeping one of Nebraska ETV's 3rd of a megawatt transmitters on the air. One of the support engineers brought up a 10 pack of the first HP schottkey diodes up and made the claim that it was a 98% efficient rectifier at 500 mhz. So I removed the twin vacuum tube diode (a 6AL5) that wasn't capable of delivering a volt of video from a monitoring test point into astd 75 ohm load, and soldered one of this new HP diodes in its place. I had to lift it back out of its mount nearly 3/4" just to get it down to one volt. It didn't take me long to modify the other 5. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
