>Knowing this, Thibado’s group built their circuit with two diodes for converting AC into a direct current (DC). With the diodes in opposition allowing the current to flow both ways, they provide separate paths through the circuit, producing a pulsing DC current that performs work on a load resistor.

Always a bit hmmm when I see something simple like a rectifier spun out in a way that eludes that they invented some revolutionary new circuit.