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    Rectifier: Half-Wave Rectification

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    A rectifier converts alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) by allowing current to flow in only one direction. It straightens the direction of current using components like diodes, valves, and semiconductor switches. Rectifiers are used in power supplies and transmission systems to generate DC power from AC sources. They may also be used for signal detection in radios, flames, and other applications. The output of rectifiers usually requires additional filtering to produce a steady voltage suitable for uses like power supplies for electronic devices.

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    Rectifier: Half-Wave Rectification

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    A rectifier converts alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) by allowing current to flow in only one direction. It straightens the direction of current using components like diodes, valves, and semiconductor switches. Rectifiers are used in power supplies and transmission systems to generate DC power from AC sources. They may also be used for signal detection in radios, flames, and other applications. The output of rectifiers usually requires additional filtering to produce a steady voltage suitable for uses like power supplies for electronic devices.

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    A rectifier converts alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) by allowing current to flow in only one direction. It straightens the direction of current using components like diodes, valves, and semiconductor switches. Rectifiers are used in power supplies and transmission systems to generate DC power from AC sources. They may also be used for signal detection in radios, flames, and other applications. The output of rectifiers usually requires additional filtering to produce a steady voltage suitable for uses like power supplies for electronic devices.

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    Rectifier: Half-Wave Rectification

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    Rectifier

    A rectifier is an electrical device that converts alternating current (AC),


    which periodically reverses direction, to direct current (DC), which flows in
    only one direction. The reverse operation is performed by the inverter.
    The process is known as rectification, since it "straightens" the direction of
    current. Physically, rectifiers take a number of forms, including vacuum
    tube diodes, wet chemical cells, mercury-arc valves, stacks of copper and
    selenium oxide plates, semiconductor diodes, silicon-controlled
    rectifiers and other silicon-based semiconductor switches. Historically, even
    synchronous electromechanical switches and motors have been used.
    Early radio receivers, called crystal radios, used a "cat's whisker" of fine
    wire pressing on a crystal of galena (lead sulfide) to serve as a point-
    contact rectifier or "crystal detector".
    Rectifiers have many uses, but are often found serving as components of
    DC power supplies and high-voltage direct current power transmission
    systems. Rectification may serve in roles other than to generate direct
    current for use as a source of power. As noted, detectors of radio signals
    serve as rectifiers. In gas heating systems flame rectification is used to
    detect presence of a flame.
    Depending on the type of alternating current supply and the arrangement of
    the rectifier circuit, the output voltage may require additional smoothing to
    produce a uniform steady voltage. Many applications of rectifiers, such as
    power supplies for radio, television and computer equipment, require
    a steady constant DC voltage (as would be produced by a battery). In these
    applications the output of the rectifier is smoothed by an electronic filter,
    which may be a capacitor, choke, or set of capacitors, chokes
    and resistors, possibly followed by a voltage regulator to produce a steady
    voltage.
    More complex circuitry that performs the opposite function, that is
    converting DC to AC, is called an inverter.
    Half-wave rectification
    In half-wave rectification of a single-phase supply, either the positive or
    negative half of the AC wave is passed, while the other half is blocked.
    Mathematically, it is a step function (for positive pass, negative block):
    passing positive corresponds to the ramp function being the identity on
    positive inputs, blocking negative corresponds to being zero on negative
    inputs. Because only one half of the input waveform reaches the output,
    mean voltage is lower. Half-wave rectification requires a single diode in
    a single-phase supply, or three in a three-phase supply. Rectifiers yield a
    unidirectional but pulsating direct current; half-wave rectifiers produce far
    more ripple than full-wave rectifiers, and much more filtering is needed to
    eliminate harmonics of the AC frequency from the output.

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