Whitepaper: Modeling and Experimenting with the Shockley Four-Layer Diode

Whitepaper: Prutchi 2026 – Modeling and Experimenting with the Shockley Four-Layer Diode My interest in early heart pacemaker technology often leads me into forgotten corners of mid-century electronics. Recently, while analyzing an RF pacemaker circuit, I encountered a part I hadn’t seen since my youth in the 1970s: the Shockley four-layer diode. A Shockley four-layer […]