negative resistance

Related to negative resistance: negative impedance

negative resistance

(Electronics) a characteristic of certain electronic components in which an increase in the applied voltage increases the resistance, producing a proportional decrease in current

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The transformer-based passive inductor produces a frequency-dependent negative resistance for resistive loss compensation [8].

Chebyshev Bandpass Filter Using Resonator of Tunable Active Capacitor and Inductor

The lamp can be approximated to a resistor that changes with light intensity, for example the RMS voltage of lamp increases almost linearly when the power of the lamp decreases, therefore the lamp behaves as a negative resistance, equally the equivalent resistance of the lamp is in function of its power [9] [10] [11].

Implementation of a Series Resonant Inverter to Improve Fluorescent Lamp Efficiency/Implementation de un Inversor Resonante en Serie para Mejorar la Eficiencia en Lamparas Fluorescentes

The active circuit in this figure is responsible to generate a constant negative resistance, which corresponds to the minimum value required for the given modulation scheme.

A single RF MIMO loading network for high-order modulation schemes

A two-terminal negative resistance convertor can now be produced by connecting three positive resistances around an operation amplifier.

Analysis of a chaotic memristor based oscillator

Conversely, Mubrarak's supporters, given that they were concentrated mainly in state apparatus, depended on methods of negative resistance by preventing these apparatus from working.

When was the army outside of the political game in Egypt?

This means that the negative resistance of the negative resistor will be tuned easily by bias current.

Design and applications of electronically tunable floating resistor using differential amplifier

As shown in the physical layout, the inductance of [L.sub.2] is higher than that of [L.sub.1] for the non-center-tapped inductor, since [L.sub.2] contributes the negative resistance in (5).

Design of low-loss and highly-selective CMOS active bandpass filter at K-band

Seo, "Dual-band push-push OSC using CRLH transmission line and tunable negative resistance based on pin diode," Microw.

Compensation of wave attenuation in left-handed traveling-wave field-effect transistors

Gymform Duo's system sends a continuous positive and negative resistance to the muscles, to create reciprocating contractions.

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The development of this new read circuit with negative resistance has resulted in STT MRAM that is insusceptible to erroneous writes caused by fluctuations in the electrical characteristics of the MTJs.

Fujitsu and University of Toronto Develop High-Reliability Read-Method for Spin-Torque-Transfer MRAM