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  2. Failure of electronic components - Wikipedia

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    Mechanical stresses, high currents, and corrosive environments forming of whiskers and short circuits. These effects can occur both within packaging and on circuit boards. Formation of silicon nodules. Aluminium interconnects may be silicon-doped to saturation during deposition to prevent alloy spikes. During thermal cycling, the silicon atoms ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (current) - Wikipedia

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    2.7V, Ultracapacitor short circuit current [9] 10 4: 25 kA Lorentz force can crusher pinch [10] 30 kA Typical lightning strike 10 5: 100 kA Low range of Birkeland current that creates Earth's aurorae 140 kA "Sq" current of one daytime vortex within the ionospheric dynamo region: 180 kA Typical current used in electric arc furnace for ...

  4. Power electronic substrate - Wikipedia

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    The role of the substrate in power electronics is to provide the interconnections to form an electric circuit (like a printed circuit board), and to cool the components.. Compared to materials and techniques used in lower power microelectronics, these substrates must carry higher currents and provide a higher voltage isolation (up to several thousand vo

  5. Ampacity - Wikipedia

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    High ambient temperature may reduce the current rating of a conductor. Cables run in wet or oily locations may carry a lower temperature rating than in a dry installation. A lower rating will apply if multiple conductors are in proximity, since each contributes heat to the others and diminishes the amount of external cooling of the conductors.

  6. Continuity test - Wikipedia

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    In electronics, a continuity test is the checking of an electric circuit to see if current flows (that it is in fact a complete circuit). A continuity test is performed by placing a small voltage (wired in series with an LED or noise-producing component such as a piezoelectric speaker) across the chosen path.

  7. Current–voltage characteristic - Wikipedia

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    A current–voltage characteristic or I–V curve (current–voltage curve) is a relationship, typically represented as a chart or graph, between the electric current through a circuit, device, or material, and the corresponding voltage, or potential difference, across it.

  8. Reference designator - Wikipedia

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    A reference designator unambiguously identifies the location of a component within an electrical schematic or on a printed circuit board.The reference designator usually consists of one or two letters followed by a number, e.g. C3, D1, R4, U15.

  9. Active rectification - Wikipedia

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    Whereas normal semiconductor diodes have a roughly fixed voltage drop of around 0.5 to 1 volts, active rectifiers behave as resistances, and can have arbitrarily low voltage drop. Historically, vibrator -driven switches or motor-driven commutators have also been used for mechanical rectifiers and synchronous rectification.