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The Zener diode is fabricated by heavily doping both the p and n sides of the junction.

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Heavy doping makes the depletion region very thin. This makes the electric field of the junction very high, even for a small reverse bias voltage. This in turn helps the Zener diode to act as a .voltage regulator..
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