X. Acknowledgements, and Who To Contact
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The maintainer of this FAQ is Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak (mjc@avtechpulse.com).
This is not an official document of Avtech Electrosystems Ltd, I post it personally. Just to be clear, Avtech does not sell diodes, but we do sell high-speed pulse generators, pulsed constant current sources, pulsed laser diode drivers, and other test instruments.
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Yuan Jiang, yjj@eng.umd.edu, wrote the section on avalanche photodiodes.
Dr. Barry L. Ornitz, ornitz@emngw1.emn.com, pointed out that Custom Components makes tunnel diodes.
Kai Borgeest, Borgeest@tu-harburg.d400.de, recommended the book on Zener diodes, and contributed the section on transient suppressor diodes.
David Gillooly, mfield@ix.netcom.com, pointed out that GAD Semiconductor makes GaAs power rectifiers.
John Scarpulla, tjohns2@tus.ssi1.com, recommended several useful textbooks, and provided most of the zener diode section.
Marshall Jose, Marshall.Jose@jhuapl.edu contributed the section on PIN diodes and the explanation of what noise diodes are for.
Dave Kirkby, davek@medphys.ucl.ac.uk contributed the bit about APD modulation.
Paul Woods, paulw@hpcvnq08.cv.hp.com, contributed the section on electron- emitting diodes.
Bob Underwood, bobu@msm.com, added some comments to the noise diode and transient suppressor sections.
John Whitmore, whit@hipress.phys.washington.edu expanded the current-limiting diode section.
Gabriel Paubert, paubert@iram.es, added some comments to the noise diode and backward diode sections.
Fred Olschner, 72142.365@compuserve.com, added a section on wide bandgap diodes.
Jussi Koskinen, jvkoskin@snakemail.hut.fi, added the sections on PIN silicon photodiodes and PIN silicon X-ray diodes.
Kathy Meehan, meehan@srvr.third-wave.co, added the sections on PIN photodiodes, LEDs, and laser diodes.
Aneek Roy, aroy@ccf.nrl.navy.mil, added the section on organic LEDs.
Arvind K. Venkatesh, arvind@bu.edu, added the general info section on photodiodes.
Anoop N. K., ank@adiblr1.soft.net, added the microwave and RF diode section.
Matthew J Bennion, mjb296@soton.ac.uk, http://www.soton.ac.uk/~mjb296 pointed out the usefulness of noise diodes as random number generators.
Steve Scott (sscott@vieng.com) at V I Engineering, added the section on modeling diodes in SPICE.
Tom Lee [mailto:tomlee@ee.stanford.edu] added interesting historical information.
Blair Hall [mailto:B.Hall@irl.cri.nz] updated the tunnel diode manufacturer listing.
Luca Turin (l.turin@ucl.ac.uk) at University College in London added the section on protein diodes.
Regards,
Michael J. Chudobiak