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  2. Tunnel diode - Wikipedia

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    A tunnel diode or Esaki diode is a type of semiconductor diode that has effectively "negative resistance" due to the quantum mechanical effect called tunneling. It was invented in August 1957 by Leo Esaki and Yuriko Kurose when working at Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, now known as Sony .

  3. Resonant-tunneling diode - Wikipedia

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    A resonant-tunneling diode (RTD) is a diode with a resonant-tunneling structure in which electrons can tunnel through some resonant states at certain energy levels. The current–voltage characteristic often exhibits negative differential resistance regions. All types of tunneling diodes make use of quantum mechanical tunneling. Characteristic ...

  4. Quantum tunnelling - Wikipedia

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    Tunneling applications include the tunnel diode, [5] quantum computing, flash memory, and the scanning tunneling microscope. Tunneling limits the minimum size of devices used in microelectronics because electrons tunnel readily through insulating layers and transistors that are thinner than about 1 nm. [6]

  5. Diode logic - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, tunnel diode logic circuits required a means to reset the diode after each logical operation. However, a simple tunnel diode gate offered little isolation between inputs and outputs and had low fan in and fan out. More complex gates, with additional tunnel diodes and bias power supplies, overcame some of these limitations. [7]

  6. Negative resistance - Wikipedia

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    The tunnel diode circuit (see diagram) is an example. [82] The tunnel diode TD has voltage controlled negative differential resistance. [54] The battery adds a constant voltage (bias) across the diode so it operates in its negative resistance range, and provides power to amplify the signal.

  7. Tunnel magnetoresistance - Wikipedia

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    Tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) is a magnetoresistive effect that occurs in a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), which is a component consisting of two ferromagnets separated by a thin insulator. If the insulating layer is thin enough (typically a few nanometres ), electrons can tunnel from one ferromagnet into the other.

  8. Tunnel junction - Wikipedia

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    In electronics, a tunnel junction is a barrier, such as a thin insulating layer or electric potential, between two electrically conducting materials. Electrons (or quasiparticles ) pass through the barrier by the process of quantum tunnelling .

  9. Metal–insulator–metal - Wikipedia

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    Metal–insulator–metal (MIM) diode is a type of nonlinear device very similar to a semiconductor diode and capable of very fast operation. Depending on the geometry and the material used for fabrication, the operation mechanisms are governed either by quantum tunnelling or thermal activation.