Tunnel Diode — Study Resources & PYQs
Working principle and characteristics of tunnel diodes.
- Estimated study time: 30 minutes
Study resources
- Special Purpose Electronic Devices - MRCET notes (PDF) — Covers tunnel diode operation with energy band diagrams (including negative resistance). The energy-band explanation of the tunnel diode is a standard exam question that most web tutorials handle bad…
- Neso Academy - Analog Electronics: Special Semiconductor Diodes (Video) — Playlist lectures covering special-purpose diodes and their I-V characteristics, useful as a lead-in before reading about varactor/tunnel/Schottky diodes.
- Electronics Notes - PN Junction & Special Diode Types (incl. Varactor, Schottky) (Article) — Reference tutorial hub covering the PN junction diode plus links to varactor/varicap, Schottky and other special diode types with their applications.
- Tunnel diode (Wikipedia) (Article) — Describes the heavily-doped tunnel (Esaki) diode, the quantum tunnelling effect behind its operation, and its characteristic negative-resistance region.
- Basic Electronics - Prof. M.B. Patil, IIT Bombay (NPTEL), curated by Class Central (Video) — NPTEL video course whose early weeks work through diode circuits and diode rectifiers in detail, followed by the physics and amplifier circuits of the bipolar junction transistor.
Tunnel Diode previous year questions
- (a) What is P-N Junction? Explain the action of P-N junction diode under forward bias and reverse bias. Draw V-I characteristics. (b) Explain the working and a…
- (a) Explain the construction, working & V-I characteristics of a Tunnel diode. (10) (b) Explain the capacitances in the diode under forward and reverse bias co…
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