DocumentCode

1053279

Title

Discovery of the tunnel diode

Author

Esaki, Leo

Author_Institution

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

Volume

23

Issue

7

fYear

1976

fDate

7/1/1976 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

644

Lastpage

647

Keywords

Avalanche breakdown; Breakdown voltage; Crystals; Current-voltage characteristics; Diodes; Electric breakdown; Germanium alloys; Impurities; P-n junctions; Tunneling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9383

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/T-ED.1976.18466

Filename

1478480