An IMPATT diode (impact ionization avalanche transit-time diode) is a form of high-power semiconductor diode used in high-frequency microwave electronics...
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oscillations (tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, IMPATT diodes), and to produce light (light-emitting diodes). Tunnel, Gunn and IMPATT diodes exhibit negative resistance...
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avalanche diodes can act as negative-resistance devices. The IMPATT diode is an avalanche diode optimized for frequency generation. These are made from doped...
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against overcurrent. Avalanche diode Gunn diode IMPATT diode Lambda diode Resonant-tunneling diode Tunnel junction Zener diode US 3033714, issued 1962-05-08 ...
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Semiconductor device (section Diode)
DIAC Diode (rectifier diode) Gunn diode IMPATT diode Laser diode Light-emitting diode (LED) Photocell Phototransistor PIN diode Schottky diode Solar...
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Crystal detector (redirect from Cat's whisker diode)
Nobel Prize in Physics. Today, negative resistance diodes such as the Gunn diode and IMPATT diode are widely used as microwave oscillators in such devices...
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Negative resistance (section Gunn diode oscillator)
microwave oscillators, resulting in the discovery of the IMPATT diode, Gunn diode, TRAPATT diode, and others. In 1969 Kurokawa derived conditions for stability...
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in the invention of the IMPATT diode in 1956 by W.T. Read and Ralph L. Johnston and the Gunn diode in 1962 by J. B. Gunn. Diodes are the most widely used...
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and magnetron tubes, and with solid state devices such as Gunn and IMPATT diodes. Although they are emitted and absorbed by short antennas, they are...
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the phase shift and the output power is substantially lower than in an IMPATT diode. Sze, SM (1981). Physics of Semiconductor Devices. second edition. John...
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FETs, SiGe and GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors/HBTs, HEMTs, IMPATT diodes, and others, are used especially at lower microwave frequencies and...
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with negative resistance, such as magnetron tubes, tunnel diodes, IMPATT diodes and Gunn diodes.: p.197–198 Negative-resistance oscillators are usually...
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to make amplifiers and oscillators. These include tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, IMPATT diodes, magnetron tubes, and unijunction transistors. When an alternating...
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high quantum efficiencies using negative resistance, i.e., Gunn or IMPATT diodes, and this would be viable for short range links. In 2013, inventor Hatem...
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lamps like fluorescent lights, and neon lights, zener diodes, avalanche diodes, IMPATT diodes, mercury-vapor rectifiers, thyratron, ignitron, and krytron...
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Oleg Losev (category Light-emitting diode pioneers)
resistance in diodes was rediscovered in 1956 in the tunnel diode, and today negative resistance diodes like the Gunn diode and IMPATT diode are used in...
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(1974), was the IMPISTOR, being a transistor with IMPATT collector-base junction. Avalanche diode "Linear Technology AN47" Archived March 20, 2012, at...
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International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce IMPATT – (p) IMPact Avalanche Transit Time diode IMPT – (i) Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists...
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