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121Power supply rail — A power supply rail or voltage rail refers to a single voltage provided by a power supply unit (PSU) relative to some understood ground. Although the term is generally used in electrical engineering, most people encounter it in the context of… …
122Thermal laser stimulation — represents a class of defect imaging techniques which employ a laser to produce a thermal variation in a semiconductor device. [Harvnb|Beaudoin|Desplats|Perdue|Boit|2004] This technique may be used for semiconductor failure analysis. There are… …
123Reactance (electronics) — Reactance is a circuit element s opposition to an alternating current, caused by the build up of electric or magnetic fields in the element due to the current. Both fields act to produce counter emf that is proportional to either the rate of… …
124Voltage spike — In electrical engineering, spikes are fast, short duration electrical transients in voltage (voltage spikes), current (current spike), or transferred energy (energy spikes) in an electrical circuit.Fast, short duration electrical transients… …
125Multiplexing — General multiplex scheme: the ν input lines channels are multiplexed into a single fast line. The demultiplexer receives the multiplexed data stream and extracts the original channels to be transferred …
126Insulated-gate bipolar transistor — The insulated gate bipolar transistor or IGBT is a three terminal power semiconductor device, noted for high efficiency and fast switching. It switches electric power in many modern appliances: electric cars, variable speed refrigerators, air… …
127Voltage divider — In electronics, a voltage divider (also known as a potential divider) is a simple linear circuit that produces an output voltage ( V out) that is a fraction of its input voltage ( V in). Voltage division refers to the partitioning of a voltage… …
128electric generator — ▪ instrument Introduction also called dynamo, any machine that converts mechanical energy to electricity for transmission and distribution over power lines to domestic, commercial, and industrial customers. Generators also produce the… …
