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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Schottky diode (named after German physicist Walter H. Schottky; also known as hot carrier diode) is a semiconductor diode with a low forward voltage drop and a very fast switching action. The cat`s-whisker detectors used in the early days of wireless can be considered primitive Schottky diodes.