Application of Germanium power rectifiers

ALTHOUGH the metal germanium is not a recent discovery, the bulk of research and development on this material has been done in the recent past. So it can be said that the discovery of the important uses of germanium has been made during the past decade. Anything which promises a revolutionary change in the field of electronics immediately becomes front-page news because electronic equipment now plays such a vital part in our industrial development as well as in our private lives. Such wide publicity has resulted in many people using the terms in a conversational way without realizing the exact meaning or the wide range of possible applications.