A Spice Behavioral Model of Tunnel Diode: Simulation and Application

Abstract

This paper provides an Analog Behavioral Model (ABM) in PSpice of a tunnel diode The PSpice parameters are implemented as separate parameterized blocks constructed from SPICE (ABM) controlled sources and extracted through experiment. A tunnel diode based oscillator is also proposed and simulated using circuit analysis software. The behavior of the tunnel diode is simulated and compared to the measured data to show the accuracy of the PSpice model. Close agreement was obtained between the simulation and experimental results.