 | A tunnel diode or Esaki diode is a type of semiconductor diode that has effectively "negative resistance" due to the quantum mechanical effect called tunneling... 14 KB (1,472 words) - 06:23, 17 April 2024 |
 | oscillations (tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, IMPATT diodes), and to produce light (light-emitting diodes). Tunnel, Gunn and IMPATT diodes exhibit negative... 63 KB (7,334 words) - 19:58, 12 May 2024 |
A resonant-tunneling diode (RTD) is a diode with a resonant-tunneling structure in which electrons can tunnel through some resonant states at certain energy... 24 KB (2,889 words) - 16:23, 1 December 2023 |
atomic nuclei. Tunneling applications include the tunnel diode, quantum computing, flash memory, and the scanning tunneling microscope. Tunneling limits the... 49 KB (6,240 words) - 23:46, 1 May 2024 |
Diode logic (or diode-resistor logic) constructs AND and OR logic gates with diodes and resistors. An active device (vacuum tubes in early computers,... 17 KB (2,146 words) - 10:49, 31 August 2023 |
 | known as SQUIDs, as well as many other devices. In tunnel diodes, a diode allows the tunneling of electrons for certain voltages. This allows them to... 2 KB (263 words) - 05:15, 17 December 2023 |
 | A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron... 164 KB (18,072 words) - 12:44, 7 May 2024 |
 | electron quantum tunnelling in the short distance between p and n regions − this is known as the Zener effect, after Clarence Zener. Diodes with a higher... 18 KB (2,326 words) - 18:34, 1 April 2024 |
 | Negative resistance (section Gunn diode oscillator) these devices: tunnel diode, resonant tunneling diode and other semiconductor diodes using the tunneling mechanism Gunn diode and other diodes using the transferred... 170 KB (15,523 words) - 20:18, 16 April 2024 |
Metal–insulator–metal (redirect from Metal-insulator-metal tunnel diode) responsivity. When they are using tunneling transport, the MIM diode can be very fast. As soon as 1974, this diode was reportedly used as a mixer at 88 THz... 4 KB (436 words) - 21:14, 3 May 2024 |
 | In semiconductor devices, a backward diode (also called back diode) is a variation on a Zener diode or tunnel diode having a better conduction for small... 3 KB (301 words) - 23:08, 26 March 2023 |
 | Electronic component (section Diodes) DIAC (diode for alternating current), Trigger Diode, SIDAC) – often used to trigger an SCR Constant-current diode Step recovery diode Tunnel diode - very... 25 KB (2,703 words) - 08:44, 6 May 2024 |
 | Electronic symbol (section Diodes) the diode symbols. Diode (rectifier) Schottky diode Zener diode Transient-voltage-suppression diode (TVS) Light-emitting diode (LED) Photodiode Tunnel diode... 22 KB (1,540 words) - 11:00, 2 March 2024 |
An IMPATT diode (impact ionization avalanche transit-time diode) is a form of high-power semiconductor diode used in high-frequency microwave electronics... 9 KB (1,323 words) - 05:56, 15 March 2023 |
utilize the quantum tunneling effect, such as resonant tunneling diodes. Unlike classical diodes, its current is carried by resonant tunneling through two or... 10 KB (1,157 words) - 05:50, 10 February 2024 |
 | Schottky diode (named after the German physicist Walter H. Schottky), also known as Schottky barrier diode or hot-carrier diode, is a semiconductor diode formed... 21 KB (2,481 words) - 18:25, 17 January 2024 |
 | radioactivity. Negative resistances can be used as amplifiers, such as the tunnel diode amplifier. A power amplifier is an amplifier designed primarily to increase... 56 KB (7,058 words) - 21:05, 7 April 2024 |
 | like a tunnel diode. The term refers to the shape of the V–I curve of the device, which resembles the Greek letter λ (lambda). Lambda diodes work at... 3 KB (360 words) - 04:21, 20 December 2023 |
 | real op-amps for comparison). The primary way of building logic gates uses diodes or transistors acting as electronic switches. Today, most logic gates are... 39 KB (3,459 words) - 20:04, 6 May 2024 |
 | Vacuum tube (redirect from Vacuum diode) oscillator operated on the same principle of negative resistance as the tunnel diode oscillator many years later. The dynatron region of the screen grid tube... 119 KB (15,311 words) - 22:30, 12 May 2024 |
 | Leo Esaki (section Esaki diode) Josephson for his work in electron tunneling in semiconductor materials which finally led to his invention of the Esaki diode, which exploited that phenomenon... 13 KB (1,299 words) - 23:00, 10 May 2024 |
 | spectrum), including gyrotrons, backward wave oscillators, and resonant-tunneling diodes.[citation needed] Due to the small energy of THz photons, current THz... 65 KB (6,782 words) - 23:32, 12 May 2024 |
 | field-effect transistor (at least at lower frequencies), tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, and IMPATT diodes. Low-power sources are available as benchtop instruments... 67 KB (6,963 words) - 06:59, 28 March 2024 |
 | Semiconductor device (section Diode) Schottky diode Solar cell Transient-voltage-suppression diode Tunnel diode VCSEL Zener diode Zen diode Three-terminal devices: Bipolar transistor Darlington... 31 KB (4,826 words) - 04:22, 10 February 2024 |
resistance devices can be used to make amplifiers and oscillators. Tunnel diodes and Gunn diodes are examples of components that have negative resistance. Hysteresis... 10 KB (1,162 words) - 06:23, 17 April 2024 |
 | Crystal detector (redirect from Cat's whisker diode) and it was forgotten. The negative resistance diode was rediscovered with the invention of the tunnel diode in 1957, for which Leo Esaki won the 1973 Nobel... 82 KB (8,404 words) - 18:12, 22 April 2024 |
 | OLED (redirect from Polymer light-emitting diode) organic light-emitting diode (OLED), also known as organic electroluminescent (organic EL) diode, is a type of light-emitting diode (LED) in which the emissive... 150 KB (16,986 words) - 16:48, 6 May 2024 |
 | Crystal radio (redirect from Diode detector) negative resistance phenomenon, decades before the development of the tunnel diode. After the first experiments, Losev built regenerative and superheterodyne... 81 KB (8,565 words) - 14:37, 9 April 2024 |
 | stars, and applications such as scanning tunnelling microscopy and the tunnel diode. When quantum systems interact, the result can be the creation of quantum... 98 KB (12,063 words) - 23:30, 6 May 2024 |
 | be applied directly to active elements with negative resistance like tunnel diode oscillators. The kernel of the criterion is that a complex pole pair... 6 KB (602 words) - 00:19, 9 May 2024 |