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Electrical diode

### Contents

- Electrical diode
  - Description
  - Dialog box
  - Default properties
  - Interfacing function
  - Modelica model

### Description

This component consists of a simple diode parallel with an ohmic resistance ( ). The current passing through this component is defined as a function of the voltage across the ports, i.e.,

where and are the saturation current and the voltage equivalent of temperature, respectively. If the exponent reaches a certain limit ( ), the diode characterisic becomes linear to avoid overflow.

### Dialog box

Set Diode block parameter |
Saturation cuurent (A) | 0.000001
Voltage equivalent to temperature (Volt) | 0.04
Max exponent for linear continuation | 15
R (ohm) | 1.000E+08

- Saturation cuurent (A) : Type 'vec' of size 1. Saturation current
- Voltage equivalent to temperature (Volt) : Type 'vec' of size 1. Voltage equivalent of temperature
- Max exponent for linear continuation : Type 'vec' of size 1. Max exponent for linear continuation
- R (ohm) : Type 'vec' of size 1. Parallel ohmic resistance.

### Default properties

- always active: no
- direct-feedthrough: yes
- zero-crossing: no
- mode: no
- number/sizes of inputs: 1 / 1
- number/sizes of outputs: 1 / 1
- number/sizes of activation inputs: 0 /
- number/sizes of activation outputs: 0 /
- continuous-time state: no
- discrete-time state: no
- name of modelica function: Diode

### Interfacing function

`Diode.sci`

### Modelica model

    class Diode "Simple diode"
       Pin p, n;
        parameter Real Ids=1.e-6 "Saturation current";
        parameter Real Vt=0.04   "Voltage equivalent of temperature (kT/qn)";
        parameter Real Maxexp=15 "Max. exponent for linear continuation";
        parameter Real R=1.e8 "Parallel ohmic resistance";
        Real v;
      equation
       v = p.v - n.v;

       p.i = if noEvent(v/Vt > Maxexp) then
    	Ids*(Modelica.Math.exp(Maxexp)*(1 + v/Vt - Maxexp) - 1) + v/R
      else
    	Ids*(Modelica.Math.exp(v/Vt) - 1) + v/R;

       p.i = -n.i;

      end Diode;