Presentation 2017-01-30
Distar power amplifier
Okamoto Kensho,
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Abstract(in English) The author , emeritus professor Kagawa University, invented an epoch-making transistor composed of an infrared light-emitting diode and a silicon photodiode in 2011, and he named the novel device “distar”. The distar operates in the same way as the conventional bipolar transistor. Using the distar, it is possible to make a voltage amplifier with a voltage gain more than 40dB. Moreover, current amplifier and power amplifier can be fabricated by combining plural LEDs and silicon solar cell whose light receiving area is far broader than the silicon photodiode. Recently, he developed a fifty-watt class practical stereo audio amplifier using the distar amplifiers composed of high-power red light-emitting diodes and silicon solar cells. Moreover, he designed a fifty-kilowatt super-power distar. This paper introduces such high power distars and the systems using them.
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Keyword(in English) Distar / Power Amplifier / LED / Si Solar Cell / Audio Amplifier
Paper # EMD2016-69,MR2016-41,SCE2016-47,EID2016-48,ED2016-112,CPM2016-113,SDM2016-112,ICD2016-100,OME2016-81
Date of Issue 2017-01-23 (EMD, MR, SCE, EID, ED, CPM, SDM, ICD, OME)

Conference Information
Committee ICD / CPM / ED / EID / EMD / MR / OME / SCE / SDM
Conference Date 2017/1/30(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Miyajima-Morino-Yado(Hiroshima)
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Circuit, Device and Engineering Science
Chair Minoru Fujishima(Hiroshima Univ.) / Satoru Noge(Numazu National College of Tech.) / Koichi Maezawa(Univ. of Toyama) / Tomokazu Shiga(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Yoshiteru Abe(NTT) / Yoshihiro Okamoto(Ehime Univ.) / Naoki Matsuda(AIST) / Nobuyuki Yoshikawa(Yokohama National Univ.) / Tatsuya Kunikiyo(Renesas)
Vice Chair Hideto Hidaka(Renesas) / Fumihiko Hirose(Yamagata Univ.) / Kunio Tsuda(Toshiba) / Mutsumi Kimura(Ryukoku Univ.) / Yuko Kominami(Shizuoka Univ.) / / / Tatsuo Mori(Aichi Inst. of Tech.) / / Takahiro Shinada(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Hideto Hidaka(Hiroshima Univ.) / Fumihiko Hirose(Univ. of Tokyo) / Kunio Tsuda(NTT) / Mutsumi Kimura(Nihon Univ.) / Yuko Kominami(JAIST) / (New JRC) / (NTT) / Tatsuo Mori(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / (Sumitomo Denso) / Takahiro Shinada(Fujielectric)
Assistant Takashi Hashimoto(Panasonic) / Masanori Natsui(Tohoku Univ.) / Hiroyuki Ito(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Pham Konkuha(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Takashi Sakamoto(NTT) / Yuichi Nakamura(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.) / Masataka Higashiwaki(NICT) / Toshiyuki Oishi(Saga Univ.) / Rumiko Yamaguchi(Akita Univ.) / Hiroyuki Nitta(Japan Display) / Mitsuru Nakata(NHK) / Takashi Kojiri(ZEON) / Ryosuke Nonaka(Toshiba) / Yoshiki Kayano(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Yuichi Hayashi(Tohoku Gakuin Univ.) / Kiwamu Kudo(Toshiba) / Shuhei Yoshida(Kinki Univ.) / Hirotake Kajii(Osaka Univ.) / Dai Taguchi(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Hiroyuki Akaike(Nagoya Univ.) / Yuki Yamanashi(Yokohama National Univ.) / Hiroya Ikeda(Shizuoka Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Integrated Circuits and Devices / Technical Committee on Component Parts and Materials / Technical Committee on Electron Devices / Technical Committee on Electronic Information Displays / Technical Committee on Electromechanical Devices / Technical Committee on Magnetic Recording / Technical Committee on Organic Molecular Electronics / Technical Committee on Superconductive Electronics / Technical Committee on Silicon Device and Materials
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Distar power amplifier
Sub Title (in English) Novel power amplifier consists of only LED and Si solar cell
Keyword(1) Distar
Keyword(2) Power Amplifier
Keyword(3) LED
Keyword(4) Si Solar Cell
Keyword(5) Audio Amplifier
1st Author's Name Okamoto Kensho
1st Author's Affiliation Opto Semiconductors Application Laboratory Application Laboratory Device Application Technology Laboratory(Opto-SC Appl. Labo)
Date 2017-01-30
Paper # EMD2016-69,MR2016-41,SCE2016-47,EID2016-48,ED2016-112,CPM2016-113,SDM2016-112,ICD2016-100,OME2016-81
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) EMD-439,MR-440,SCE-441,EID-442,ED-443,CPM-444,SDM-445,ICD-446,OME-447
Page pp.pp.1-6(EMD), pp.1-6(MR), pp.1-6(SCE), pp.1-6(EID), pp.1-6(ED), pp.1-6(CPM), pp.1-6(SDM), pp.1-6(ICD), pp.1-6(OME),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-01-23 (EMD, MR, SCE, EID, ED, CPM, SDM, ICD, OME)