In article , hill_a@t_rowland-dotties-
harvard-dot.s-edu says...
of my measurements cries out for further bench
exploration. It represents only one part, and is unconfirmed. Also,
what happens if the voltage is reversed? Are we to believe the diode
is a 10M resistor, shunted by a diode? I'm not comfortable with that.

I'm confused. Is there some reason to expect the semiconductor material
to be a perfect insulator with no resistivity at all? Nothing's
perfect, and those diodes probably aren't made in the most exacting
processes.

I would be blown away if you *couldn't* measure some ohmic current flow
in a diode at any particular voltage level.

-- jm

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