Tayloredge - Electronics Reference

*Opto-Electronics*
High Eff Solar Cells	SunPower discussion on achieving 21% conversion efficiency
Laser Diodes	Specs for a variety of laser diodes as well as IR/Red pulls from DVD writers
LEDs, care and feeding	It's all about giving LEDs the current they want!
Neon V-I	Graph of the current vs voltage negative resistance characteristic of neon lamps
Photo Sensors	Characteristics of various compound semiconductor sensors
Solar Panels	AstroPower solar panels, now owned by GE Solar
Solar Panel Power	Data showing peak power delivery is when open circuit voltage (OCV) is 1.5 times load voltage
Ripple clock	Circuit to extract line frequency clock from the ripple on the output of an unregulated AC to DC adapter.