Portland, Ore. – Semiconductor researchers have known since the 1950s that the quantum-confinement effects of tunnel diodes boost circuit speed and current handling while reducing component count and ...

Resonant tunnelling diodes (RTDs) in Gallium Nitride (GaN) heterostructures constitute a frontier in quantum device engineering, where quantum mechanical tunnelling and precise interface control ...

Assistant Professor Shigehisa Shibayama (right) and first author Shota Torimoto (left), along with the rest of the team, have developed a resonant tunneling diode using only non-toxic Group IV ...

WASHINGTON -- David Storm, a research physicist, and Tyler Growden, an electrical engineer, both with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, developed a new gallium nitride-based electrical component ...

Australian semiconductor developer BluGlass has successfully demonstrated working tunnel junction laser diodes in a world-first proof-of-concept using its proprietary remote plasma chemical vapour ...

For the first time, researchers in China have demonstrated a high-temperature superconducting diode effect, which allows a ...

The tunnel diode may be making a comeback, following work at Ohio State University on silicon-based devices. A peak-to-valley current ratio of 4.0 has been achieved at room temperature in the SiGe ...

Researchers have developed a new resonant tunneling diode (RTD) with performance beyond the anticipated speed of 5G. David Storm, a research physicist, and Tyler Growden, an electrical engineer, both ...

Your car radio converts electromagnetic radiation—radio waves—into electric currents that the speakers use to produce sound. The same process should be able to convert visible or infrared radiation to ...