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   Diodes, Tunnel

A tunnel diode or Esaki diode is a type of semiconductor diode which is capable of very fast operation, well into the microwave region GHz, by utilizing quantum mechanical effects.

It was named after Leo Esaki, who in 1973 received the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the electron tunneling effect used in these diodes.

These diodes have a heavily doped p-n junction only some 10 nm (100 ) wide. The heavy doping results in a broken bandgap, where conduction band electron states on the n-side are more or less aligned with valence band hole states on the p-side.



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Books
Parametric and tunnel diodes (Prentice-Hall series in electrical engineering)
Kern Ko Nan Chang

Tunnel Diodes (Modern Electrical Studies)
B. Easter, & H. A. Bell M. A. Lee and G. D. Sims

Radio Corporation of America RCA: RCA Transistor Manual Including Rectifiers, Silicon Controlled Rectifiers, Varactor Diodes and Tunnel Diodes (Technical Series CS-11)
RCA

The Physics and Applications of Resonant Tunnelling Diodes (Cambridge Studies in Semiconductor Physics and Microelectronic Engineering)
Hiroshi Mizuta and Tomonori Tanoue

Excerpt - page 134: "... the depletion layer thicknesses. This is in contrast to Esaki tunnel diodes in which the diode capacitance is very high since, in ..."
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RCA Tunnel Diodes for Switching and Microwave
RCA

Rca Tunnel Diodes for Switching & Microwave Applications
Radio Corporation Of

Basic theory and application of tunnel diodes
Sylvester P. Gentile

Principles of Tunnel Diode Circuits
Woo F. Chow

Tunnel Diode Interconnect Junctions for Cascade Solar Cells
E. Blakeslee

Light-Emitting Diodes
E. Fred Schubert

Excerpt - page 23: "... R. R., and Barnes P. A. "Injection electroluminescence in metal-semiconductor tunnel diodes" Solid-State Electronics 7, 879 (1964) Edmond J. A., Kong H. ..."
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Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Diode Frequency Multipliers (Artech House Microwave Library)
Marek T. Faber, Jerzy Chramiec, and Miroslaw E. Adamski

Excerpt - page 18: "... devices exist for millimeter- wave applications. A potential candidate, the tunnel diode, has no adequate dynamic range and power-handling capability. 2.3.3 General ..."
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Technique for fabrication of A1-A1O-Pb superconducting tunnel diodes (AFCRL) (AFCRL)
JoseĢ H Silva

A tunnel diode nanosecond coincidence circuit (Columbia University. Nevis Cyclotron Laboratory [Reports] NEVIS) (Columbia University. Nevis Cyclotron Laboratory [Reports] NEVIS)
Paolo Franzini

Photoelectric phenomena in tunnel diode structures
James Rufus Stevenson

Tunnel diode theory and applicaitons
Rajendra I Nanavati

Low power nanosecond pulse and logic circuits using tunnel diodes (NASA technical note) (NASA technical note)
Stephen Paull

Statistics of switching-time jitter for a tunnel diode threshold-crossing detector (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics. Technical report) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics. Te
Donald Edward Nelsen

Some new high-speed tunnel-diode logic circuits, (Research paper) (Research paper)
M. S Axelrod

Analysis of the Marzolf tunnel diode inverter using techniques of nonlinear mechanics
D. L Hester

Tunnel diodes as sinusoidal oscillators
Harry Hollis Lamb

Behaviour of tunnel diode discriminators
Francesco Pandarese

ABC's of tunnel diodes (A Howard W. Sams photofact publication)
Peter Galaan

Limit cycle studies for circuits containing one tunnel diode; (International Business Machines Corporation. Research paper) (International Business Machines Corporation. Research paper)
Leopold Flatto

Frequency shifts in tunnel diode oscillators for high precision NMR susceptibility measurements
Douglas G Wildes

Measurements of frequency shifts of a tunnel diode oscillator due to magnetic resonance
James H Newman

Applications of tunnel diodes in switching circuits (University of Illinois) (University of Illinois)
Toshiro Kunihiro

A study of the zero-bias anomaly in BAAs tunnel diodes extended to 0.4 [degrees]K (Technical report) (Technical report)
Nabih Assad Mora

Transistor and diode network problems and solutions
Harry E Stockman

Introduction to Solid-State Lighting
Arturas Zukauskas, Michael S. Shur, and Remis Gaska

Excerpt - Back Matter: "... the liquid state and its application to the fabrication of tunnel and laser diodes," RCA Rev. 24 (4), pp. 603-615. NINOMIYA, S. and ADACHI, ..."
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High-Speed Semiconductor Devices
Simon M. Sze

Excerpt - page 106: "... Tunneling is responsible for the breakdown of a reverse-biased Schottky diode, Fig. 28b. A p-n junction ... backward diode and the Esaki tunnel diode, are discussed in detail in Ref. 1, and we ..."
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Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Fourth Edition (Teach Yourself)
Stan Gibilisco

Excerpt - page 330: "... on the cathode side. Oscillation and Amplification Under certain conditions, diodes can be made to produce microwave RF signals. Three types of diodes that can do this are Gunn diodes, IMPATT diodes, and tunnel diodes. Gunn Diodes A Gunn diode can produce up to ..."
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Fabrication and characteristics of microwave backward diodes in indium arsenide (NASA technical note) (NASA technical note)
John B Hopkins

Effect of electron launcher structures on A1As/GaAs double barrier resonant tunneling diodes (HP Laboratories technical report) (HP Laboratories technical report)
L Yang

The Art of Electronics
Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill

Excerpt - page 8: "... to make devices with negative "incre- mental" resistances (e.g., the tunnel diode) or even true negative resistances (e.g., the negative-impedance converter that ..."
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Beginner's Guide to Reading Schematics
Robert J. Traister and Anna L. Lisk

Excerpt - Back Matter: "... Schematic symbols III DIODES -*- Rectifier (junction diode) Tunnel (constant-current regulator) Tunnel rectifier (backward ... recovery PIN Varactor (snap, charge-storage) diode (variable capacitance) DIODES-OPTOELECTRONIC Optically Coupled Isolators With With photodiode output ..."
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Physics Demystified : A Self-Teaching Guide (Demystified)
Stan Gibilisco

Excerpt - page 400: "... an oscillator (a circuit that generates rf ac), an IMPATT diode produces about the same amount of output power, at comparable frequencies , as a Gunn diode. TUNNEL DIODES Another type of diode that can oscillate at microwave ..."
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