What is a schottky diode?

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Thumbs up for an excellent use of the Predator thermal vision sound effect.

The concise, informative and TO THE POINT nature of your videos is something that a lot of other Youtube contributors could learn from.  Two thumbs up.  Okay at least one for sure.

Hey - I never realized that you included a reference to my switching time video in here! Thanks!

That poor diode at the end. You took its magic smoke away. They can't work without their magic smoke, and once it comes out, you can't get it back in.

You are one of the best teachers ever.Even though it is not in my primary language I could always understand you videos and humor very clearly.I know that making these videos must take a lot of time especially at this quality.so Thank you!

Excellent tutorial!

Great video with oscilloscope waveforms and detailed explanations covering the relevant minute points. Thank you for all the practical demonstrations. Good knowledge for an electronics engineer. Please cover popular ICs, diacs, triacs and other lesser used components

Wish I knew of these videos back in college. Great job explaining and showing!

SED, Smoke Emitting Diode

Afrotechmods consistently boils down the essential points to make it vastly easier for a beginner to understand what is going on.

I enjoy the way you demonstrate in a no nonsense way these differences. I did not realize there were the differences between a normal diode and a shottky. Thank you again for your information.

Thanks for the reference to my TRR video!  Nice job as always!

This is an outstanding tutorial and without exception the best explanation of the schottky diode I have heard in both my personal and professional experience. Job well done.

I wish all electronics videos were this well tutored

You are a great teacher! Thank you

Probably the best video to date I've seen clearly describing the difference between a diode and a schottky diode -  in just 6 minutes!

Chotchkie's diodes have to have at least 15 pieces of flair to function properly

For a beginner your tutorials are gold, keep it up!