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Why do we use diodes instead of transistors in electrical circuits?

April 26, 2017circuits Diodes electrical Engineering Mathematics transistors

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Why do we use diodes instead of transistors in electrical circuits?

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Well, depending on the application, you would use either. Maybe you should rather ask why is it that transistors are sometimes used instead of diodes or to perform as diodes (which happens, I should say, much more often). The answer to that is that a diode is a special case of a transistor.