In this part of the cycle diode
D1 would not conduct but diode D2 would,
giving an output current and output
voltage (across RL) during the negative half
cycle of the input ac Thus, we get output
voltage during both the positive as well as
the negative half of the cycle Obviously,
this is a more efficient circuit for getting
rectified voltage or current than the half-
wave rectifier The rectified voltage is in the form of
pulses of the shape of half sinusoids