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It pioneered the use of semi-conductor-based laser diodes in its high-end copier and printer businesses as well.

Nick De Profundis, the company lounge lizard, has surprised everybody by changing, inside the phone booth of factory spaces here, to an energetic businessman, selling A4 souvenirs: small items that can be worked into keychains, money clips or a scatter-pin for that special gal back home, burner cups of brass off the combustion chambers, ball bearings from the servos, and this week the hep item seems to be SA 100 acorn diodes, cute little mixing valves looted out of the Tele-funken units, and the even rarer SA 102s, which of course fetch a higher price.

Showed them her ritual service and taught them her mysteries, even Diodes, princely Triptolemus, and Polyxenus, the solemn Mysteries, which are unthinkable either to question or utter Or to transgress: for a holy respect checks the utterance of them.

Research was conducted on cryogenic components, subminiaturization of components, and superfast switching devices, called tunnel diodes.

I have an itch in my diodes that says one of these is the lucky number.

Following a current street fad, a mass of tiny glowing diodes had been threaded into the piled up mass of hair, but even about a third of those had burnt out.

Uses a lithium-ion battery to run the reader, battery is good for five or six years, and when it starts to run low, it flashes a diode, right here, so you know to replace it.

On opening the clipboard he revealed a typewriter-style keyboard and a yellow Liquid Crystal Diode display.

And then a cavern where several people sat and just watched a rotating display of exciting gadgets: self-winding vinyl shavers, laminated automatic mattress inflaters, combination spectrometer-tachometers, Old West-style laser guns, disposable artificial epoxy kidneys, solid-state microwave oscillators in decorator colors, electroluminescent diodes in personalized carrying cases, solar-powered nose-hair clippers, princess-style videophones, geodesic teakettles, injectionmolded garlic presses, manually operated cherrystoners, alligator-finished episcopes, magnetostriction ultrasonic generators on patio stands, self-turning kaleidoscopes, robot flatirons, vestpocket bronchoscopes, paisley-surfaced binnacles, miniaturized vacuum cleaners, musical abacuses.

When the scientists began to kick the quantum theory around they came up with any number of odd effects - the tunnel diode, the Josephson effect, and a lot more - some of them are usable and some not.

This is the laser diode based on light emitting diode (LED) technology.

From the rear window panel of the van, the invisible beam of the device's near-infrared semiconductor laser diode had been aimed at a ninety-degree angle through the back windshield at the Fiat's rearview mirror.

What the user saw was a high-quality representation cast by tiny laser diodes that threaded out of the helmet wall.

When detonated, the panels would absorb the energy from the explosives and the laser diodes would spray out clouds of laser bolts.

Set on the inside surface of the sphere were four hundred diode lasers, like powerful laser pointers, aimed into the center of the sphere.