Dissipation current

Figure 17.13a, b show the characteristics of ambipolar inverters using layers with mixing ratios of 3 1 and 1 3. The upper part presents the transfer characteristics of the inverters (output voltage vs. input voltage) and the lower part the corresponding current supplied by Vj j, = 90 V, which directly gives the dissipated current in the circuit. 

If is the same quantity as in Equation 5.74, representing the oxidized species that eventually arrive at the tip as a feedback current 4 is the dissipation current, that is, the flux of species not reaching the tip... 

Polar materials will have a faster inherent dissipation constant than nonpolar materials because of their higher dielectric constant. Such charge dissipation processes that occur with highly resistive substrates produce characteristically low dissipation currents, in comparison to those of a conductive substrate. 

Fig. 28 Charge dissipation currents divide across all available paths using relative power (IR drop) losses just as they would in a parallel electrical circuit.

One of the primary goals of current research in the area of tribology is to understand how it is that the kinetic energy of a sliding object is converted into internal energy. These dissipation mechanisms detennine the rate of energy flow from macroscopic motion into the microscopic modes of the system. Numerous mechanisms can be... 

These ion lasers are very inefficient, partly because energy is required first to ionize the atom and then to produce the population inversion. This inefficiency leads to a serious problem of heat dissipation, which is partly solved by using a plasma tube, in which a low-voltage high-current discharge is created in the Ar or Kr gas, made from beryllium oxide, BeO, which is an efficient heat conductor. Water cooling of the tube is also necessary. 

Ferrites aHowing for operation at frequencies well above 1 MH2 have also become available, eg, 3F4 and 4F1 (Table 6). Other newer industrial power ferrites are the Siemens-Matsushita N-series (28,97) the TDK PC-series (28,100), and the Thomson B-series (28,103). While moving to higher frequencies, the ferrites have been optimized for different loss contributions, eg, hysteresis losses, eddy current losses, and resonance losses. Loss levels are specified at 100°C because ambient temperature in power appHcations is about 60°C plus an increase caused by internal heat dissipation of about 40°C. 

Fig. 10. Power factor at 1 MHz vs temperature for some commercial glasses. Courtesy of Corning Inc. The power factor is the ratio of the power ia watts dissipated ia a material to the product of the effective siausoidal voltage and current ia volt-amperes. When the dissipation factor is less than 0.1, the power...

Under both short-circuit and open-circuit conditions, a solar cell produces no electric power, the power is consumed internally in the cell and is dissipated as heat. When a resistive load is connected to a cell in sunlight, a photogenerated voltage, F, is induced across the load and a current flows through it. The existence of requites that the flow of majority carriers be reduced from that in the open-circuit condition there must be a higher battier potential than in the open-circuit case (Fig. 2d). This higher barrier potential (V6 — ) indicates a smaller reduction from Since the photogenerated... 

Current only flows in the CMOS inverter when the load capacitor is being charged or discharged. No current flows to maintain a logic level (0 0 V, 1 5 V). Because power is dissipated only when current flows, the amount of power dissipation in a CMOS circuit is proportional to circuit... 

Materials that have the abiUty to dissipate a charged formed, by any means including tribocharging and induction, on the material are referred to as static dissipative. There is a correlation between static dissipation and surface resistance. EIA-541 currently defines the static dissipative range as 10 to 10 ... 

Resistance Heating of Contacts. The contact material, contact area, and heat dissipating abihty, as well as the heat dissipating abihty of the stmcture to which the material is attached, limit the amount of current that a contact can transport. Excessive current heats and softens the metal contact. This softening results in an increase in the surface area of the contact and a corresponding reduction in contact resistance. 

Features common to most high-voltage dc powder supplies include rev ersible polaritv, short-circuit and current-limiting protection, and automatic residual-charge dissipation to ground. 

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