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    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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    diodes (e.g., BY127 1250V, 1A rectifier diode) BZ-series silicon Zener diodes (e.g., BZY88C4V7 4.7V Zener diode) Other common numbering/coding systems...
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  • person like that." Zener effect Zener diode Zener pinning Zener–Hollomon parameter Landau–Zener formula Zener double-exchange mechanism Zener ratio, an elastic...
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  • non-avalanche diode. The Zener diode exhibits an apparently similar effect in addition to Zener breakdown. Both effects are present in any such diode, but one...
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    the device and leave the circuit unprotected. Surge protector Trisil Zener diode "Evaluating TVS Protection Circuits with SPICE" (PDF). Power Electronics...
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    the Zener effect (employed most notably in the appropriately named Zener diode) is a type of electrical breakdown, discovered by Clarence Melvin Zener. It...
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    reference diode or another stable voltage source. Together with 'normal' Zener diodes especially with lower Zener voltages (<5V) the diode might even...
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    The mechanisms are the Zener effect and avalanche breakdown. The Zener effect is primarily exhibited by reverse-biased diodes and bipolar transistor base-emitter...
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    like a two-terminal current limiter (analogous to a voltage-limiting Zener diode). It allows a current through it to rise to a certain value, but not...
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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...
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