How to plot the I-V curve of a tunnel diode?
My answer to Codidact question How to plot the I-V curve of a tunnel diode? I wrote this post yesterday. Initially, I did not intend to write an answer but rather wanted to give some guidance to OP through comments. But it turned out this was not desirable there and was treated as a "discussion"... and our comments have been deleted. My answer is short. My goal is to use it to explain, in the simplest and most convincing way possible, the behavior of the tunnel diode in the negative resistance region... what it does there... Answer Setup. We can best understand the behavior of the tunnel diode in the region with negative resistance if we imagine it as a self-variable ( dynamic ) resistor R driven by a variable voltage source V - Fig. 1. If OP has a subtle sense of humor, I suggest we conduct this experiment in the form of a fun (but useful) game where he is the voltage source and I am the "tunnel diode":) Fig. 1. A setup for measuring the tunnel diode IV cur...