Posted by Claire on Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 9:12am.
It lets high current flow through when the polarity is in the right direction and a "gate" electrode has been activated. It is more commonly called a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR).
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyristor
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