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It's called a diode because the device has two terminals. Devices that have three terminals are called triodes, and those with five pentodes. Words of that type have fallen by the wayside except in the realm of vacuum tube electronics ... except for the word diode, which has hung on. Note that the Wikipedia article that you cite refers specifically to ...

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An RTD is a special type of TD, and a double barrier is just one of many possible implementations of resonant tunneling. An RTD is called "resonant" because (under certain conditions) the transmission function is equal to one, i.e. complete transmission. This happens due to wave-like interference between the two barriers. Hence called "resonant": the phase ...

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The negative differential resistance creates a special phenomena: under a certain bias and certain incident electron energies, the transmission function through the double barrier is nearly zero. In other words, for a finite voltage domain, the current is nearly zero, i.e. a rectifying behaviour. This can be referred to as "generalized diode", since the ...

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The exact equations for I-V characteristics of transistors are derived using quantum-mechanics. Several approximations can be used, one of which is based on the shottky barrier analysis This reference here derives the I-V linear and quadratic approximation (in saturation) for FET transistors. Another reference here UPDATE: As @QMechanic pointed, ...

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First, for simplicity, assume the diode is ideal. For an ideal diode, the voltage across cannot be positive (the voltage at the anode is either equal to or less than the voltage at the cathode). Since the cathode of the diode is connected to the 0V reference, and since the anode is connected to the output node, it follows that the output voltage cannot be ...

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For simplicity, I'm going to assume a 0.7V diode drop in the ON state. In your diagram, you can call the low node ground (0V), in that case, you have one of two situations: The diode is on (closed switch) In this state, current can flow through the resistor and therefore, through the diode. In this case, 0.7V is dropped across the diode and the remaining ...

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The diode has a central barrier at the PN junction which allows charge to flow across it only when a sufficiently positive voltage is applied to the P part with respect to the N part so that the barrier potential is overcome.In this case the diode is said to be forward biassed and conducts current.At all times when the P part has a voltage less than the ...

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From the information you have put in your question I think that in the reverse bias case the 'diode is open' means that it behaves like an 'open circuit' or 'open switch' and no current passes through it and thus no current goes through the battery. The load resistor has current passing through it that goes to circuit/components not shown on the right hand ...

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Yes, there is a fundamental reason why electricity is so universal. It is because matter is made of electric charges bound together (protons and electrons). When you think of non-electric technologies such as the wheel, realize that the wheel relies on the rigidity of matter which depends on the bonds between atoms which are electric in nature. So even ...

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