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In semiconductor device: Schottky diode
…one that has a metal-semiconductor contact (e.g., an aluminum layer in intimate contact with an n-type silicon substrate). It is named for the German physicist Walter H. Schottky, who in 1938 explained the rectifying behaviour of this kind of contact. The Schottky diode is electrically similar to a p-n junction,…
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