And that’s where the tunnel diode comes in. Tunnel diodes have a negative-resistance region that can be used to amplify and oscillate at extremely high frequencies in extremely simple circuits ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Semiconductor researchers have known since the 1950s that the quantum-confinement effects of tunnel diodes boost circuit speed and current handling while reducing component count and ...

The first tunnel diodes were created in the 1960s, and led to a Nobel Prize for physicist Leo Esaki in 1973. Since then, in an effort to build more powerful diodes, ...

A tunnel diode amplifier circuit. Chetvorno [CC0] Particularly if your textbook is a little older, you may find a short section talking about the tunnel diode.

A former “D” student from Norway, he made his mark at G.E.’s Research Lab in the U.S., in part by confirming a pivotal theory ...

Tunnel diodes are so named because they transmit electricity via a quantum mechanical effect known as tunneling, which lets electrons pass through barriers unhindered.

Atomically thin resonant tunnel diodes built from synthetic van der Waals heterostructures. Nature Communications , 2015; 6: 7311 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8311 Cite This Page : ...

"Tunnel diodes looked promising, but we had to find a way to accurately measure and digitise the information in a way we could use for our purposes.

Australian semiconductor developer BluGlass has successfully demonstrated working tunnel junction laser diodes in a world-first proof-of-concept using its proprietary remote plasma chemical vapour ...