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Error while trying to use diff comand

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Nathan Donatell
Nathan Donatell on 10 Nov 2019
Closed: MATLAB Answer Bot on 20 Aug 2021
This is the code that I created and I am trying to differentiate Id and Vt but every time I run the program I keep getting this error, "Difference order N must be a positive integer scalar." I am not sure how to get rid of this error.
Here is my code:
x = 0:.01:.65;
q=1.6022e-19;
C=28.73;
T=273+C;
k=1.3806e-23;
Is=1.0e-12;
V= x;
n=1;
Vt=(k*T)/q;
Id=Is*((exp(V/(n*Vt))));
plot(V,Id)
axis([-0.5,0.7,-0.1,0.3])
grid on
title('I-V Characteristics of Diode')
xlabel(' Voltage ')
ylabel(' Current ')
R = diff(Vt,Id);

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 10 Nov 2019
It is not clear to me what you want to do.
If you want to take the numerical derivative of ‘Id’ using step size ‘Vt’ use the gradient function as:
R = gradient(Id,Vt);
This also has the advantage that ‘R’ is the same size as ‘Id’.

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