Re: Whatever happened to tunnel diodes ?

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From: Michael Covington
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:31

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In article <3sL6TB1w165w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca> bills@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Bill Shymanski) writes:
>I have an old General Electric "Transistor Manual - 7th Edition", which
>looks like it was published in 1964 or so.   They have quite a few
>illustrations of the use of tunnel diodes.   Whatever happened to the
>tunnel (Esaki) diode ?   

I think the main thing is that conventional transistors caught up with them
in frequency response.  In 1964, a tunnel diode was almost the only way
to make a 1-GHz oscillator.  Not any more...


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