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- From: vporguen@unl.edu (victor porguen)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Voltage drop across 1N4148 diode?
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 15:31:16 GMT
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- The diode with the lowest voltage drop you're likely to find is the
- so-called "back diode", a form of tunnel diode (Ge) in which the peak
- voltage is reduced to very low value.
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- Its forward voltage drop is very close to zero, but the reverse
- is not very high... high enough for some interesting applications,
- though.
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- Look up your literature under "Tunnel Diodes".
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