Re: Converting a NTC voltage into temperature in Celcius

Bill Sloman wrote:

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The problem is that you choose the mode when you choose the diode. Your
formulation suggests that you think somebody could to operate one diode
in one mode or the other. Only a hopeless newbie could think that, but
some of the lurkers aren't all that sophisticated, and a few of our
posters aren't much better.
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Gerhard Hoffmann has pointed out that even a 4.7V zener diode has enough
avalanche component in it's breakdown mechanism to introduce lots of
noise though the temperature coefficient of the reverse voltage is still
marginally negative.

Thank you for taking the time to clear things up.
    It's time to move on to a another interesting (from my own
perspective) topic. At least one person refers to this Shockley pn
junction equation as "famous":

    VBE = VT*ln(IE/IS)

It makes me feel like a hopeless newbie for such a well known equation
to remain unknown to me until relatively recently. My curiosity moved me
to peek at the 12.5 THE THEORY OF A p-n JUNCTION section of ELECTRONS
AND HOLES IN SEMICONDUCTORS by Shockley.
     So far, nothing recognizably resembling the above equation jumps
out at me from the Shockley. Fortunately, "success has many fathers." So
this paper (credits Widlar's work) will suffice:

<https://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/iee/eb/forsch/AK-Bipo/2007/AKB2007_10_Berkner_BG_Ref_Simulation_101102.pdf>

Danke,

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