On 06/18/2018 04:09 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Peter Otten wrote:
"folk etymology" would be the retrofitting of the exotic "Schottky"
into two familiar words "shot" and "key". Sometimes the writer
assumes that these words are somehow related to the labeled object.
Well, there is a thing called "shot noise", and you can probaby
get it from a Shottky diode under some circumstances, but
Shottky is definitely someone's name. (Walter H. Shottky, to
be specific.)
FWIW, we used to call them barrier diodes, or sometimes hot carrier
diodes, until the name "Schottky" became commonplace in, what, the mid
80s or so?
-Jim
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