^jspsusa.org: The Global Reach of Japanese Science Speaker: Leo Esaki Citat: "...This environment stimulated me, encouraged me, and eventually lead me to my thesis work of the Esaki Tunnel Diode in 1957...the root of this development was the tunnel diode, which I made in 1957..."
^Aertech Industries, Brooke Clarke: Tunnel Diode Amplifiers Citat: "...The TD amplifier combines a TD operating in the negative resistance region with a matching circuit and a circulator to separate the incident and reflected waves. Since the isolation of a single junction circulator is around 20 dB the gain of each stage needs to be less than that to prevent oscillations...", backup