The drawback to this circuit, common to all tunnel diode applications, is the low output level: these diodes work at low voltages and currents, so can’t generate powerful outputs. 300 MHz Oscillator ...

Chetvorno [CC0] Particularly if your textbook is a little older, you may find a short section talking about the tunnel diode. There will be an odd-looking circuit that seems to make no sense at ...

The Tunnel diode has instead two forward conduction regions where in effect the two regions are joined to form a mirrowed ‘S’ shape I/V curve.They are useful for when an essentially un-powered/self ...

Resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs) have emerged as compact, semiconductor-based sources of terahertz (THz) radiation, a frequency regime that underpins advanced applications in spectroscopy, high ...

Researchers have invented a new organic polymer tunnel diode -- an electronic component that could one day lead to plastic computer memory and plastic logic circuits on computer chips. Today ...