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I made this image modeled after some Gunn diode sketches online, but maybe it applies to tunnel diodes too? - Omegatron 04:55, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
This article is wrong on at least one level; the switching 'frequency' is orders of magnitude higher, development never stopped on TDs. In 1970, the Tektronix S-52 Pulse Generator used a TD to achieve a 25ps rise time step, about a 14GHz bandwidth. PPL sold TD generators that go down to 5ps. Nowadays you'd use a RTD to go even faster. These whacko physics things are always orders of magnitude faster than commercial cmos processes, etc... 207.134.93.241
Yes. Esaki invented it. Same device. Should be merged but still call article 'Tunnel Diode' (I like the name) Light current 01:49, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
Could someone please put together a graph of the V/I curve for reverse bias operation of tunnel diodes, too? I found the explanation of its operation when reverse biased too difficult to understand properly without one. Thanks in advance.
This page [9] has further documentation on tunnel diodes. Disclaimer - I'm the author of that copyright violation which is provided as a service with no advertisements, etc. 20 Dec 2005.
Does anyone have any tunnel diode bandgap diagrams lying around on their computer somewhere? I was thinking about putting some up if not. It would be helpful to explain the different regions of operation.
To me the difference betwee a Tunnel diode and a Gunn Diode is not clear. From both articles I would conclude they're the same which I understand is not the case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.25.234.146 ( talk) 23:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
So what's the fuss over devices from the 1960s still working? I have resistors, transistors, diodes and vacuum tubes from the 1960s that still work. I have WWII resistors that work, 1960s ICs that work, etc. It's not really a unique property of tunnel diodes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.254.191 ( talk) 15:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Why does the top summary say it was invented in 1958 but first manufactured in 1957 by Sony? Did they invent it after they started selling it for a year...?
I am just barging through here to point out the impossibility of both of these statements being accurate "It was invented in August 1958 by Leo Esaki" and "Tunnel diodes were first manufactured by Sony in 1957".
I have no alternate sources for this information and I've left it unedited for the time being because I don't know which piece of information is incorrect or in what way, but I'd suggest replacing these statements with something a little more vague if no reliable sources are available. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.130.63.244 ( talk) 11:43, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Can we please have an explanation of the diodes function, and what is different from normal diodes, that is accesable to lay people? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.97.133.244 ( talk) 15:30, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Not a word about him? 81.167.16.211 ( talk) 06:56, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
The article states: "In 2013 the NEE-01 Pegaso and NEE-02 Krysaor satellites used power management modules based on a series of tunnel diodes to fast switch between solar powered operation and battery powered operation replacing otherwise very complex electronics with a few devices." However I just read through the linked article, and see no reference to this circuit.
Can someone provide links to the circuit design or description? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.124.150.5 ( talk) 19:02, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
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I made this image modeled after some Gunn diode sketches online, but maybe it applies to tunnel diodes too? - Omegatron 04:55, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
This article is wrong on at least one level; the switching 'frequency' is orders of magnitude higher, development never stopped on TDs. In 1970, the Tektronix S-52 Pulse Generator used a TD to achieve a 25ps rise time step, about a 14GHz bandwidth. PPL sold TD generators that go down to 5ps. Nowadays you'd use a RTD to go even faster. These whacko physics things are always orders of magnitude faster than commercial cmos processes, etc... 207.134.93.241
Yes. Esaki invented it. Same device. Should be merged but still call article 'Tunnel Diode' (I like the name) Light current 01:49, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
Could someone please put together a graph of the V/I curve for reverse bias operation of tunnel diodes, too? I found the explanation of its operation when reverse biased too difficult to understand properly without one. Thanks in advance.
This page [9] has further documentation on tunnel diodes. Disclaimer - I'm the author of that copyright violation which is provided as a service with no advertisements, etc. 20 Dec 2005.
Does anyone have any tunnel diode bandgap diagrams lying around on their computer somewhere? I was thinking about putting some up if not. It would be helpful to explain the different regions of operation.
To me the difference betwee a Tunnel diode and a Gunn Diode is not clear. From both articles I would conclude they're the same which I understand is not the case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.25.234.146 ( talk) 23:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
So what's the fuss over devices from the 1960s still working? I have resistors, transistors, diodes and vacuum tubes from the 1960s that still work. I have WWII resistors that work, 1960s ICs that work, etc. It's not really a unique property of tunnel diodes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.254.191 ( talk) 15:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Why does the top summary say it was invented in 1958 but first manufactured in 1957 by Sony? Did they invent it after they started selling it for a year...?
I am just barging through here to point out the impossibility of both of these statements being accurate "It was invented in August 1958 by Leo Esaki" and "Tunnel diodes were first manufactured by Sony in 1957".
I have no alternate sources for this information and I've left it unedited for the time being because I don't know which piece of information is incorrect or in what way, but I'd suggest replacing these statements with something a little more vague if no reliable sources are available. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.130.63.244 ( talk) 11:43, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Can we please have an explanation of the diodes function, and what is different from normal diodes, that is accesable to lay people? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.97.133.244 ( talk) 15:30, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Not a word about him? 81.167.16.211 ( talk) 06:56, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
The article states: "In 2013 the NEE-01 Pegaso and NEE-02 Krysaor satellites used power management modules based on a series of tunnel diodes to fast switch between solar powered operation and battery powered operation replacing otherwise very complex electronics with a few devices." However I just read through the linked article, and see no reference to this circuit.
Can someone provide links to the circuit design or description? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.124.150.5 ( talk) 19:02, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
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