S.U.R. & R Tools Switching Tunnel Diode AI101I Ga-As Military USSR 4 pcs

in today's video we're going to talk about the basics of tunnel diodes where you can call them the bucking bronco of the diode world and we'll talk about what I mean by that term here in a moment most diodes that we run across whether the rectifiers or switching diodes so we talked about diode switching in the past where Zener diodes or P I end I ODEs or for actors or even LEDs they all share a common characteristic and that they generally know will conduct current in one direction block it in the other of course the Zener is an exception in that case or it will break down but they all have that same basic IV characteristic now the tunnel diodes do not follow that same basic principle the tunnel diodes were invented in the late 1950s by Leo Esaki and there's some really good references that I'll link in in the video notes down below there's actually a lot of information online about tun