Meaning of tunnel diode
Tunnel diode
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Meaning and definition of tunnel diode :
A semiconductor diode that is a two-terminal semiconductor device, consisting of a heavily doped p-n junction, which has negative resistance at low voltage due to quantum-mechanical tunnelling and is principally used as a high-speed switching device
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