In article , Ian Bell
wrote:
Don Pearce wrote:


I plan to. I had hoped some of the leading lights on this group would
have done this already. I find it hard to believe I am doing pioneering
experiments. Crikey, I might even publish the results on a web site ;-)

I doubt you are 'pioneering'. If you look back at journals and texts
published before about 1960 you may well find what you require. However I
suspect that engineers lost interest in what you are asking about some
decades ago. Simply easier to get low noise with solid state devices in
most applications. I doubt many modern texts discuss 'coherers' as
alternatives to Shottky diodes, either. ;- But you can find them in
older books.

FWIW If I get a chance I'll do a search through my old JAES papers and see
if any deal with what you want to know. They may cover it in the early
volumes.

Slainte,

Jim

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