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- From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
- Subject: Re: Whatever happened to tunnel diodes ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.223107.1442@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:31:07 GMT
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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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