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hot-carrier diode

hot-carrier diode

[′hät ‚kar·ē·ər ′dī‚ōd]
(electronics)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Depending on the shorts threshold or the source voltage, semiconductor devices across certain nodes may appear shorted, causing false failures especially if the source voltage is high enough to turn on hot-carrier diodes or some Schottky barrier diodes.
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