zener diode

zener diode
/zee"neuhr/, Electronics.
a semiconductor diode across which the reverse voltage remains almost constant over a wide range of currents, used esp. to regulate voltage.
[1955-60; after U.S. physicist Clarence Melvin Zener (born 1905)]

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