Talk:Tunnel diode

message: This article is wrong on at least one level; the switching 'frequency' is orders of magnitude higher, development never stopped on TDs. In 1970, the Tektronix S-52 Pulse Generator used a TD to achieve a 25ps rise time step, about a 14GHz bandwidth. PPL sold TD generators that go down to 5ps. Nowadays you'd use a RTD to go even faster. These whacko physics things are always orders of magnitude faster than commercial cmos processes, etc... 207.134.93.241
:Well, this is Wikipedia, so you know what to do: be bold and update the page as you see fit! And we'll all thank you for it!
:Atlant 14:05, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tunnel diodes are '''fast''' 

message: Yes. Esaki invented it. Same device. Should be merged but still call article 'Tunnel Diode' (I like the name)Light current 01:49, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge  Esaki Diode with Tunnel Diode 

message: To me the difference betwee a Tunnel diode and a Gunn Diode is not clear.
From both articles I would conclude they're the same which I understand is not the case.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.25.234.146 (talk) 23:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gunn diode 

message: So what's the fuss over devices from the 1960s still working? I have resistors, transistors, diodes and vacuum tubes from the 1960s that still work. I have WWII resistors that work, 1960s ICs that work, etc. It's not really a unique property of tunnel diodes.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.254.191 (talk) 15:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longevity 

message: I am just barging through here to point out the impossibility of both of these statements being accurate "It was invented in August 1958 by Leo Esaki" and "Tunnel diodes were first manufactured by Sony in 1957".
I have no alternate sources for this information and I've left it unedited for the time being because I don't know which piece of information is incorrect or in what way, but I'd suggest replacing these statements with something a little more vague if no reliable sources are available.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.130.63.244 (talk) 11:43, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This device was invented in 1958 but manufacture started in 1957 

message: Can we please have an explanation of the diodes function, and what is different from normal diodes, that is accesable to lay people?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.97.133.244 (talk) 15:30, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed -- as WP's primary audience is not engineers (who certainly have much better references at hand!), articles should be shaded toward the intelligent lay person, if not curious people in general. Mention of the satellite power-management modules is a good start though could be elaborated a bit. Any good effort to answer the eternal question "well, so what?" will improve access to knowledge. Weeb Dingle (talk) 12:51, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lay person explanation needed 

message: Not a word about him?
81.167.16.211 (talk) 06:56, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oleg Losev 

message: The article states: "In 2013 the NEE-01 Pegaso and NEE-02 Krysaor satellites used power management modules based on a series of tunnel diodes to fast switch between solar powered operation and battery powered operation replacing otherwise very complex electronics with a few devices."
However I just read through the linked article, and see no reference to this circuit.
Can someone provide links to the circuit design or description?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.124.150.5 (talk) 19:02, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  NEE-01 Power Supply Switcher