The I-V curve for a diode showing avalanche and Zener breakdown.
In electronics, the Zener effect (employed most notably in the appropriately named Zener diode) is a type of electrical breakdown, discovered by Clarence Melvin Zener. It occurs in a reverse biased p-n diode when the electric field enables tunneling of electrons from the valence to the conduction band of a semiconductor, leading to numerous free minority carriers which suddenly increase the reverse current.[1]
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the Zenereffect (employed most notably in the appropriately named Zener diode) is a type of electrical breakdown, discovered by Clarence Melvin Zener. It...
as the Zener voltage, is reached. Zener diodes are manufactured with a great variety of Zener voltages and some are even variable. Some Zener diodes have...
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compared to a non-avalanche diode. The Zener diode exhibits an apparently similar effect in addition to Zener breakdown. Both effects are present in any...
different noise characteristics. The mechanisms are the Zenereffect and avalanche breakdown. The Zenereffect is primarily exhibited by reverse-biased diodes...
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very similar to Zener diodes (and are often mistakenly called Zener diodes), but break down by a different mechanism: the avalanche effect. This occurs when...
electrons from the valence to conduction band of semiconductors (the Zenereffect) can also be regarded as a form of field emission. The terminology is...
opposite direction compared to grain boundary migration. This effect is called the Zenereffect after the man who estimated this drag force to F = π r λ sin...
to the crystal. Avalanche diodes (commonly encountered as high voltage Zener diodes) are constructed to break down at a uniform voltage and to avoid...
used in some laboratory and calibration applications. Laboratory-grade Zener diode secondary solid-state voltage standards used in metrology can be constructed...
analysis to simplify a circuit. Zener diode Nickname for "voltage regulator diodes" which may rely either on the Zenereffect or avalanche breakdown to maintain...
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voltage output is needed, a zener diode or series of zener diodes may be employed. Zener diode regulators make use of the zener diode's fixed reverse voltage...
electrons from the valence to conduction band of semiconductors (the Zenereffect) can also be regarded as a form of field emission. Composite materials...
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of the Zener diode's action of maintaining a constant voltage across itself when the current through it is sufficient to take it into the Zener breakdown...
it. Thus, as long as the Zener current (IZ) is above a certain level (called holding current), the voltage across the Zener diode (VZ) will be constant...