This popular surface mount equivalent JEDEC registered switching/signal diodes are military qualified and available with internal metallurgical bonded construction. These small low capacitance diodes with very fast switching speeds are hermetically sealed and bonded into a “D-5D” package. They may be used in a variety of fast switching applications including computers and peripheral equipment such as magnetic cores, thin-film memories, plated-wire memories, as well as decoding or encoding applications, etc. Microchip also offers a variety of other switching/signal diodes.