A two-terminal semiconductor diode using tunnelling electrons to perform high-speed switching operations.
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- Early tunnel diodes were made by hand one at a time.
- We are investigating tunnel diodes, which rectify the IR-frequency current waves in the antenna arms.
- Leading electronics publications begged for articles on tunnel diodes and rushed them into print.
- The first tunnel diodes were created in the 1960s, and led to a Nobel Prize for physicist Leo Esaki in 1973.
- Leo Esaki is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who invented the tunnel diode while working for the Sony Corporation in Japan.