 Spreading Resistance Sensor
5% aluminum – 63 %
(SRS) - sensor that detects
change in resistance in extrinsic
semiconductor.
 Wagner Grounding – reduce the
stray capacitance and capacitance
between bridge arm by grounding.
 Linear Taper potentiometer – a
meter sensitivity control in a test
instrument.
 LogarithmicTaper Potentiometer
– a volume control in a stereo
compact disc player.
 100 Hz – uses magnet as oscillator
 Corona – maximum
transmission lines
 Caryon- can not be used as
magnet
 Die cast – can not be used in a
processing monolithic IC
 Transistor Outline (TO) Package
– earlier experience in transistors
 F.T. Bacon - introduce the first
fuel battery in 1959
 Class F Motors – operates at
155°C
 Class B Motors – operates at
130°C
 Cache memory – stores the
frequently used data
 Magnetic Disc – faster in retrieval
and storage compared to magnetic
tape
 Hysteresis – increases noise
immunity in op-amp
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 Ramsauer Effect – absorption of
slow moving electron by
intervening matter
 Bravais Lattice- lattice in which
the lattice points are only shown in
the crystal
 Frenkel Defect – missing atom
and relocation of the atom in
interstitial place in which atom
must not be placed
 Vacancy defect – absence of an
atom
 Schering Bridge – AC bridge use
to measure capacitor
at  Heaviside bridge – measure
mutual inductance
 Geometry – distance between,
features of IC, distance of features
2 and 3 µm
 Selsyn – indicating device
orientation of object
 Shielded metal Arc Welding –
heat generated melts the tip
 Arc Welding – not resistance
welding
 Electron – Beam Welding – used
in vacuum welding
 Pressure Welding – atom to atom
bond on surface with oxide free
surface
 Swinburnes – most economical,
convenient way to determine no
load losses in large dc shunt motor
 Pure unrealed silver – 
conductivity is 108.8%
 99.9% gold – 72.6% conductivity
 99.
conductivity
 660V – earthly ground
 3.3kV-11kV – resistance ground
 Solar cell – also called as
photovoltaic cell
 Selenium –photocells and has 1V
voltage drop
 Shielding or grounding –
elimination of stray capacitance
 Switch Mode Power Supply
(SMPS) – most efficient power
supply (10kHz – 40kHz)
 Hopkinson – 2 identical shunt
motor
 Mercury Lag – retardation or
delay response in the system
 Compton Camera – imaging of
positron emitter using multiple
layer of silicon detector
 Schmitt Trigger – comparator with
hysteresis
 Cyclo converter – AC voltage
frequency converter from one form
to another
 LED – Voltage: 1.6, Current: 25mA
 Wien Bridge - measure AC
frequency and capacitor with
greater accuracy (0.5% - 1%)
 Polyphase motor – used in large
lead application
 Typical value of CMRR: 100-
100,000 & 40-80 dB
Surge resistance of cables: 50Ω
 1 µm – distance between
components in an advance IC
 2 µm – 3 µm – distance between
components in a normal IC
 Stack memory – uses LIFO
 Skin effect – seen at high
frequencies
 Program Counter – indicates the
address of next instruction
 Einstein Relation – drift current is
directly proportional to mobility,
diffusion is directly proportional to
concentration of diffusion
 Inverter – an AC-DC converter
 Semiconverter – use controlled
devices
 Gold doping – reduces storage
time
 Weston cell – use as voltage
reference
 Ringing ckt. – RLC that produces
nearly undamped oscillation
 Fuzzy logic – absolutely false,
neutral, absolutely true
 Trilogic – false, neutral, true
 Monolithic – active and passive
devices fabricated in one process,
most used in a AC because it is
more compact
 Film IC – deposited
 Thin Film IC– sputtering, ceramic
substrate
 Thick Film IC – alumina substrate
 Hay Bridge – measures
inductance with large phase angle
 Anderson bridge – improvised
Wein – bridge
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 Gimmick Capacitance – small because it can with stand large
capacitance generated when overload
twisting 2 insulated wires  Timing Marker Generator –
 Digital IC – discrete converting sine wave to series of
 Analog IC – linear pulses
 False triggering – dV/dt effect in  Regulator IC alone – current
SCR regulator alone
 Local Hot Spot – di/dt effect in  Duty Cycle (D) for Buck
SCR
 Prescaler Circuit – divides the HF D =V2/ V1
signal so that a low frequency  Duty Cycle (D) for Buck
counter would be able to display
the operating frequency (D-1) =V1/ V2
 Quantum Detector – responds to
the variation in incident photon  Duty Cycle (D) for Buck - Boost
 Tank ckt. – anti-resonant circuit D =V2/ (V2 + V1)
 MMIC – Impedance: 50Ω, Noise
3.5 to 6 dB  Buck – Boost continuously:
 TTL – 5V power supply, input
threshold is half the power supply L =((1-D)2DRL)/2FS
 FETVM – draws less current from
the circuit under test
 Optoisolator – provides very high
electrical isolation between control
ckt and power ckt, has high
impedance between light source
and phototransistor
 5.6V zener has the best
temperature stability
 Bolometer - used to measure
variations by the changing metallic
resistance
 Thermistor – most common
bolometric device
 DC motor and stepper motor –
are mostly used in robot than AC