During the first half of the 20th century radio technology was booming, albeit restricted by the vacuum tube technology of the time which made radios cumbersome in size and power needs. The ...

The best-known semiconductor device exhibiting negative resistance is the tunnel diode, also known as the Esaki diode after one of the Nobel-Prize-winning discoverers of the quantum tunneling ...

WEEK 8: Tunnel devices: tunnel diode, backward diode, MIS tunnel diode, MIS switch diode, MIM tunnel diode, tunnel transistor. WEEK 9: IMPATT and related transit-time diodes: static characteristics, ...

Small Signal Diodes – Applied in high-frequency and low-current circuits. - Others – Includes tunnel diodes and photodiodes for specialized applications. By End Use Industry: - Communications ...