List of electronics topics
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This is a list of communications, computers, electronic circuits, fiberoptics, microelectronics, medical electronics, reliablity, and semiconductors.
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16VSB - 2VSB - 32VSB - 4000 series - 4VSB - 555 timer IC - 741 - 7400 series - 8VSB
A
- Absolute gain - Access control - Acceptance pattern - Access time - Acoustic coupler - Acquisition - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - Adaptive communications - Adder - Adjacent-channel interference - Alarm sensor - Aliasing - Alternate party - Alternating current - AM radio - Amateur radio - Ambient noise level - American Radio Relay League (ARRL) - AMI - Ammeter - Amperage (see Current) - Ampere - Amplitude distortion - Amplitude modulation - Amplifier - Analog - Analog computer - Analog decoding - Analogue switch - Analog to digital converter - Analysis of resistive circuits - Angular misalignment loss - Antenna - Antenna blind cone - Antenna effective area - Antenna gain - Antenna height above average terrain - Antenna noise temperature - Antenna theory - aperiodic antenna - aperture (antenna) - aperture illumination - Aperture-to-medium coupling loss - Apollo Guidance Computer - Arithmetic and logical unit - Armstrong oscillator - ARRL - Articulation score - Astable - Asynchronous communications system - Asynchronous operation - Asynchronous start-stop - Atmospheric duct - Atmospheric waveguide - Attenuation - Audible ringing tone - Audio system measurements - Automatic call distributor - Automatic data processing - Automatic Gain Control - Automatic link establishment - Automatic Number Identification - Automatic sounding - Automatic switching system - Autovon - Availability - Available line - Avalanche diode - AzimuthB
BCS theory - Backplane - Backward channel - Balancing network - Ball grid array - Band gap - Bandwidth compression - Bare particular - Baseband - Battery (electricity) - Baud rate - Baudot code - beam - beam diameter - beam divergence - beam steering - beamwidth - Bel - Bias - biconical antenna - billboard antenna - Binaural recording - Binary classification - Bipolar junction transistor - Broadband Internet - Back-to-back connection - Backscattering - Balance return loss - Balanced line - Band-stop filter - Beam diameter - Beamwidth - Bias distortion - Bilateral synchronization - Bipolar signal - Bit inversion - Bit pairing - Bit stuffing - Bit synchronous operation - Bit-count integrity - Bits per second - Black facsimile transmission - Black recording - BNC connector - Signal boosting - boresight - Broadband - Breadboard - Bremsstrahlung - Bridging loss - Burst transmission - Busy hour - Busy signal - Bypass - Barrage jamming - Big ugly dish - Bit robbing - Blanketing - Bluetooth - Broadband wireless access - Broadcasting
C
C-QUAM - Cable modem - Cable television - Caesium standard - Call collision - Call set-up time - Call-second - Capacitor - Capacitive coupling - Capture effect - Carbon nanotube - Carrier system - Card standards - Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection - Carrier shift - Carrier wave - Carson bandwidth rule - Carrier-to-receiver noise density - Carrier - Cassegrain antenna - Category 5 cable - Cathode ray tube - Central processing unit - Chadless tape - Channel noise level - Channel - Channel reliability - Character-count integrity - Characteristic impedance - Charge-coupled device - Chemical vapor deposition - Chroma subsampling - Chirping - Circuit - Circuit breaker - Circuit noise level - Circuit reliability - Circuit restoration - Circuit switching - Circular polarization - Circulator - Citizens' band radio - Cladding - Clapp oscillator - Clean room - Clear channel - Clearing - Clipping - Clock gating - Clock signal - Closed-circuit television - Closed circuit - Closed waveguide - CMOS - Coaxial cable - Co-channel interference - Code division multiple access - Code word - Coherence length - Coherence - Coherence time - Coherent differential phase-shift keying - Coherer - Coil - Coilgun - Color code - Collinear antenna array - Collins Radio - collinear antenna array - Colpitts oscillator - Combat-net radio - Combined distribution frame - Combinatorial logic - Common base - Common battery - Common collector - Common control - Common emitter - Common-mode interference - Commonality - Communications center - Communications satellite - Communications security - Communications system engineering - Communications system - Communications-electronics - Communications - Compact audio cassette - Compatible sideband transmission - Composite video - Compulsator - Computer - Concentrator - Conditioning equipment - Conducted interference - Conduction band - Conductive coupling - Connections per circuit hour - Conservation of radiance - Content delivery - Contention - Continuous Fourier transform - Continuous operation - Continuous wave - Convolution - Copper - Cord circuit - Corner reflector - Cosmic noise - Costas loop - Coulomb's law - Counter - Coupling - Covert channel - Covert listening device - CPU design - CQD - Cross product - Crossbar switch - Crosstalk - Critical angle - Critical frequency - Current - Cutback technique - Cutoff frequency - Cutoff wavelength - Crystal filter - Crystal radio receiver
D
D region - D-4 - Data - Data bank - Data circuit terminating equipment - Data compaction - Data integrity - Data link - Data service unit - Data terminal equipment - Data transmission circuit - Datasheet - DBa - DBm - DBrn - DDR SDRAM - Degree of isochronous distortion - Delay line - Delay - Delta modulation - Demand assignment - Demand factor - Demand load - Demodulation - Demodulator - departure angle - Design objective - despun antenna - Deviation - Dial-up - Diamagnetism - Dielectric constant - Dielectric strength - Dielectric - Dielectric waveguide - Differential amplifier - Diffraction - Digital Audio Tape - Digital access and cross-connect system - Digital circuit - Digital radio - Digital filter - Digital signal processing - Digital multiplex hierarchy - Digital signal processor - Digital to analog converter - Digital transmission group - Digitizer - Diode - DIN - DIP switch - diplex operation - Dipole - dipole antenna - Direct bandgap - Direct broadcast satellite - Direct current - Direct distance dialing - direct ray - directional antenna - Directional coupler - Directive gain - Direct-sequence spread spectrum - Discrete - Discrete Fourier transform - Dispersion-limited operation - Distortion-limited operation - Distortion - Distributed switching - Diurnal phase shift - Diversity reception - DOD master clock - Doping - Double-sideband suppressed-carrier transmission - Double-slit experiment - Drift - Drop and insert - Dropout - Dual access - Dual-modulus prescaler - Dual-tone multi-frequency - Duobinary signal - Duplex - Duty cycle - Dual in-line package - DXCC - Dynamic range
E
E-layer - E-skip - Earphone - Earpiece - Earth's magnetic field - Echelon - EDIF - effective antenna gain contour - effective boresight area - Effective data transfer rate - Effective Earth radius - Effective height - Effective input noise temperature - effective isotropically radiated power - effective monopole radiated power - effective radiated power - Effective transmission rate - Efficiency factor - Electric charge - Electric current - Electric field - Electric motor - Electric power transmission - Electric power - Electrical conduction - Electrical conductivity - Electrical connector - Electrical current - Electrical efficiency - Electrical engineering - Electrical generator - Electrical resistance - Electrical signal - Electricity - Electricity distribution - Electrical connector - Electrical length - Electrical network - Electro-optic effect - Electro-optic modulator - Electro-optics - Electrochemical cell - Electrochemistry - Electrode - Electrodynamics - Electrolytic capacitor - Electromagnetic environment - Electromagnetic induction - Electromagnetic interference control - Electromagnetic pulse - Electromagnetic radiation - Electromagnetic radiation hazard - Electromagnetic spectrum - Electromagnetic survivability - Electrometer - Electromagnetism - Electron hole - Electron - Electronic amplifier - Electronic deception - Electronic design automation - Electronic filter - Electronic imager - Electronic mixer - Electronic musical instrument - Electronic oscillator - Electronic power supply - Electronic tagging - Electronic test equipment - Electronic warfare support measures - Electronics - Electrostatic discharge - Electronic switching system - Electronic color code - Element - Emergency position-indicating rescue beacon - Emitter coupled logic - Entropy encoding - End distortion - Endurability - Enhanced service - Equilibrium length - Equivalent noise resistance - Equivalent pulse code modulation noise - Erase - Error-correcting code - Error burst - Error ratio - Examples of electrical phenomena - Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) - Eye pattern
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Fab - Facility - Facsimile converter - Fade - Fading distribution - Fail safe - Fall time - fan-beam antenna - Far-field region - Farad - Faraday cage - Faraday constant - Faraday's law of induction - Fault management - Fault - FCC registration program - Federal Standard 1037C - feed - Feed horn - Feedback - Ferromagnetism - Ferroelectric effect - Field - Field effect transistor - Field (physics) - FPGA Field programmable gate array - Field strength - Filled cable - Filter - Filter design - Flip-flop - Flutter - Fluorescent lamp - Flux - Flywheel effect - FM band - FM improvement factor - FM improvement threshold - FM radio - Fourier series - Fourier transform (see also List of Fourier-related transforms) - Forward error correction - Four-wire circuit - Four-wire terminating set - Fractal antenna - Frame - Frame rate - Frame slip - Frame synchronization - Framing bit - Free-space loss - Freenet - Freeze frame television - Frequency - Frequency modulation synthesis - Frequency-exchange signaling - Frequency-hopping spread spectrum - Frequency-shift keying - Frequency-division multiplexing - Frequency assignment - Frequency averaging - Frequency counter - Frequency deviation - Frequency frogging - Frequency modulation - Frequency synthesiser - Frequency standard - Fresnel zone - Fresnel equations - Fresnel reflection - Front-to-back ratio - Fuel cell - Fuse
G
Galvanometer - Gallium arsenide - Garble - Gateway - Gating - Gauss - Geiger-Mueller tube - Gel electrophoresis - Gemini Guidance Computer - Gender changer - Global Positioning System - Global system for mobile communications - GNU Radio - Graded-index fiber - Grade of service - Ground - Ground constants - Ground loop - Ground plane - Groundwave - Guided ray - Gyrator
H
H-channel - Halftone characteristic - Hall effect - Hamming code - Hamming distance - Handoff - Handshaking - Hard copy - Harmonic - Harmonic analysis - Harmonic oscillator - Hartley oscillator - Heat sink - helical antenna - Helmholtz coil - Henry (inductance) - Hertz - Heterodyne repeater - Heterodyne - High-performance equipment - High frequency - High-speed circuit-switched data - Hop - Horn - How to make a transformer - How to test three-phase electrical supply - How to test three-phase pumps - Hybrid balance - Hybrid circuit - Hybrid coil - hybrid coupler - Hysteresis
I
IEEE 802 - IEEE 802.11 - IEEE 802.15 - Image antenna - Image response - Image frequency - Image rejection ratio - Impedance - Impedance match - Impedance mismatch - In-band on-channel - Incidental radiator - Independent sideband - Index of cooperation - Inductive coupling - Inductor - Inductive reactance - Information transfer - Information-bearer channel - Infrared - Input - Insertion gain - Insertion loss - Inside plant - Insulation - Integrated circuit - Intentional radiator - Intensity modulation - Intercept - Interchange circuit - Intercharacter interval - Interconnect facility - Interference - Interferometry - Intermediate-field region - Intermodulation distortion - International Electrotechnical Commission - Interoperability - Interposition trunk - Intersymbol interference - Inverse multiplexer - Inverse-square law - Ion pump - Ionosphere - ISM band - Isochronous burst transmission - Isochronous signal - Isotropic antenna
J
Jam signal - Jamming - Jansky - Jitter
K
K-factor - Karnaugh map - Kendall effect - Key pulsing - Kirchhoff's circuit laws - Klystron - Knife-edge effect
L
LNA - Laser - Launch angle - Launch numerical aperture - Lead-lag effect - Leaky mode - Light bulb - Light-dependent resistor - Light-emitting diode - Lightning - Limiting - Line code - Linear feedback shift register - Linear regulator - Lip synchronization - List of antenna terms - List of telecommunications encryption terms - List of telecommunications transmission terms - List of telephony terms - Load - Loading - Loading characteristic - Loading coil - lobe - Local battery - Log-periodic antenna - Logic - Logic families - Logic gate - Long-haul communications - Long-tailed pair - Long-term stability - Longitudinal redundancy check - loop - Loop gain - Loop-back - Low frequency - Low-performance equipment - Low noise amplifier - Lumped element model
M
Magnet - Magnetic core memory - Magnetic field - Magnetic flux - Magnetic flux quantum - Magnetic levitation - Magnetism - Magnetosphere - Magneto-optic effect - Magnetron - Main distribution frame - Main lobe - Making a transformer - Manchester code - Maser - Mask work - Master frequency generator - Maximal-ratio combiner - Maximum usable frequency - Maxwell coil - Maxwell's equations - Maxwell's demon - Mean time between outages - Mediation function - Medium - Medium frequency (MF) - Medium-power talker - Mediumwave - Michelson-Morley experiment - Microelectronics - Microphone - Microwave - Microwave auditory effect - Microwave oven - MIL-STD-188 - Minimum bend radius - Mode scrambler - Mode volume - Modem - Modular synthesizer - Modulation - Modulation factor - Modulation rate - Molecular electronics - Monostable - Moore's law - Morse code - MOS Technology 6501 - MOS Technology 6502 - MOS Technology VIC-II - MOS Technology SID - Mu-law algorithm - Multi-element dipole antenna - Multimeter - Multipath - Multipath propagation - Multiple access - Multiple homing - Multiplex baseband - multicoupler - Multiplexer - Multiplexing - Multiplication ALU - Multivibrator
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N
N connector - Nanotechnology - Nanowire - Narrative traffic - Narrowband - Narrowband modem - National Electrical Code (US) - natural frequency - Nature versus nurture - Neural network - Near-field region - Negative-acknowledge character - Net gain - Netlist - Network administration - Network architecture - Network management - Neutral direct-current telegraph system - Nickel metal hydride - Noise-cancelling headphone - Noise-equivalent power - Noise figure - Noise level - Noise power - Noise temperature - Noise weighting - Non-return-to-zero - Normalized frequency - NTSC - Nuclear magnetic resonance - null - Numbers station - Numerical aperture - Numerically controlled oscillator - Nyquist interval
O
Off-hook - Off-line - Ohm - Ohm's law - Ohmmeter - Oliver Heaviside - Omnidirectional antenna - On-hook - On-line - One-way trunk - Open circuit - Open spectrum - Operational amplifier - orthomode transducer - Optical density - Optical fiber - Optical path length - Optical spectrum - Optoelectronic - Orthogonal frequency division modulation - Oscilloscope - Output - Out-of-band signaling - Outside plant - Overflow - Overhead information - Overmodulation - Override - Overshoot
P
Packet switching - Packet-switching node - Paired disparity code - PAL - Par meter - Parabolic antenna - Parabolic microphone - Parallel transmission - parasitic element - Parity - Passband - Patch bay - Path loss - Path profile - Pauli exclusion principle - PBER - PCB layout guidelines - Peak envelope power - Peltier effect - Performance measurement period - periodic antenna - Periscope antenna - Permeability - Permittivity - Phantom circuit - Phantom loop - Phase - Phase-locked loop - Phase-shift keying - Phase distortion - Phase jitter - Phase modulation - Phase noise - Phase perturbation - Phased array - Photodiode - Photoelectric effect - Photolithography - Photon - Physical layer - Pickup - Pin grid array - planar array - Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy - PID controller - Piezoelectricity - Pirate radio - Planar array - Planck's constant - Point-to-point construction - Polarization - Polyphase system - Portable people meter - Potential difference - Potential divider - Power - Power connector - Power supply - Polarential telegraph system - Polling - Preamplifier - Preemphasis - Preemphasis network - Preferred values - Preventive maintenance - Primary channel - Printed circuit board - Primary time standard - Principal clock - Product detector - Programmable logic device - Propagation - propagation mode - Propagation path obstruction - Proration - PSK31 - Pseudorandom noise - Pseudorandom number sequence - Pulse - Pulse amplitude - Pulse duration - Pulsed inductive thruster - Pulse-address multiple access - Pulse-code modulation - Pulse-width modulation - Push-to-talk operation - Push-to-type operation - Pyroelectricity
Q
Q code - Q-switching - QRP operation - Quadrature - Quadrature amplitude modulation - Quality assurance - Quality control - Quantum harmonic oscillator - Quartz clock - Quasi-analog signal - Queuing delay
R
Race hazard - Radar - Radiation angle - Radiation mode - Radiation pattern - radiation resistance - Radiator - Radio - radio beam - Radio clock - Radio electronics - Radio frequency - Radio frequency induction - Radio horizon - radio horizon range - Radio propagation - Radio Row - radio range - Radio receiver - Radio station - Radiotelephone - Radioteletype - Radix-64 - Railgun - Random access memory - Randomizer - Ray transfer matrix analysis - RC - RC circuit - RCA - RCA jack - Reactance - Receive-after-transmit time delay - Received noise power - Receiver - Receiver attack-time delay - Reception - Reconnaissance satellite - Record medium - reference antenna - Reference circuit - Reference clock - Reference noise - Reference surface - Reflection coefficient - Reflection loss - Reflective array antenna - Refractive index contrast - Register - Register transfer level - Regeneration - Regenerative circuit - Release time - Relative transmission level - Relational model - Relaxation oscillator - Relay - Remote operations service element protocol - Remote sensing - Repair and maintenance - Repeater - Repeating coil - Reproduction speed - Reradiation - Resistor - Resistor color code - Resonance - Response time - Response - Responsivity - Return loss - RF connector - RF modulator - RF probe - RF shielding - RFID - RF power margin - RGB color space - rhombic antenna - Ring current - Ring latency - Ring modulation - Ringback signal - Ringdown - RJ45 - RLC circuit - Robot - Rogowski coil - Root mean square - Routing indicator - RS-232 - RX - Rydberg formula
S
S/PDIF - S-Video - Sacrificial anode - Sampling frequency - Scalar field - Scanner - Scanning electron microscope - SCART - Schema - Schematic - School Experiment - Oscilloscope - Schumann resonance - Scrambler - Screen - Second audio program - Security management - Self-clocking signal - Self-synchronizing code - Sensor Networks - SECAM - Semiautomatic switching system - Semiconductor - Semiconductor device - Semiconductor device fabrication - Sensitivity - Separate channel signaling - Serial access - Serial ATA - Serial transmission - Series and parallel circuits - Shadow loss - Shannon limit - Shannon's theorem - Short circuit - Shortwave - Shot noise - Shrinking generator - side lobe - Sideband - Sidereal time - Siemens - Signal - Signal (information theory) - Signal compression - Signal processing - Signal processing gain - Signal reflection - Signal transition - single-polarized antenna - Signal-to-noise ratio - Signal-to-crosstalk ratio - Signature block - Significant condition - Silicon - Silicon bandgap temperature sensor - Simplex circuit - Simplex signaling - Single-frequency signaling - Single-sideband modulation - Sinc filter - Single frequency networks - Single phase electric power - Skew - Skin effect - skip zone - Skywave - Slant range - slewing - slot antenna - Slow-scan television - Software-defined radio - Solar cell - Soldering - Solenoid - Sound card - space diversity - Specific detectivity - Space tether - Spark gap - Specification - Speckle pattern - Spectral width - Spectrum - Spectrum analyzer - Speed of light - Speed of service - SPICE - spillover - Spill-forward feature - Spin glass - spot beam - Spread spectrum - Spurious emission - Squelch - Standard telegraph level - Standard test signal - Standard test tone - Standing wave - Standing wave ratio - Starpath Supercharger - Start signal - Start-stop transmission - Static electricity - Steady-state condition - Step-index profile - Stop signal - Stopband - Store-and-forward switching center - Stressed environment - Strobe light - Stroke speed - Subcarrier - Subtractive synthesis - Sudden ionospheric disturbance - Supercomputer - Superconductivity - Superheterodyne receiver - Superparamagnetism - Supervisory program - Suppressed carrier transmission - Surface wave - Surface-mount technology - Surveillance device - Survivability - Switch - Switched-mode power supply - Synchronism - Synchronization - Synchronizing - Synchronous network - Synchronous optical networking - Synthesizer - System integrity - Systems control
T
T-carrier - TEMPEST - TRF - TRS - TTL - TX - Table of standard electrode potentials - Tantalum - Tactical communications system - Tactical communications - Tactical data information link--A - Tape relay - Technical control facility - Telecommunication - Telecommunications service - Teleconference - Telegrapher's equations - Telegraphy - Telemetry - Telephone tapping - Teletext - Teletraining - Television - Tensor - Tesla coil - Tesla patents - test antenna - Tether propulsion - Thermal noise - Thermistor - Third-order intercept point - Three phase - Time-assignment speech interpolation - Time-domain reflectometer - Time-division multiple access - Time-division multiplexing - Time-out - Tinfoil hat - TNC connector - Toll switching trunk - Total harmonic distortion - Total internal reflection - Traffic intensity - Traffic shaping - Transceiver - Transcoding - Transducer - Transformer - Transient electromagnetic device - Transistor - Transistor-transistor logic - Transistor radio - Transition metal - Transmission coefficient - Transmission level point - Transmission line - Transmission medium - Transmit-after-receive time delay - Transmitter - Transmitter attack-time delay - Transmitter-studio link - Transparent latch - Triangle wave - Trimline telephone - Troposphere - Tropospheric ducting - Tropospheric wave - Transponder - Transverse redundancy check - Traveling wave tube - Tuner - Twisted pair
U
Ultra Wideband - Ultra high frequency - Ultraviolet - Unavailability - Uncertainty principle - uniform linear array - Unijunction transistor - Unintentional radiator - Unit interval - Uplink - Upright position - User
V
VAC - Vackar oscillator - Vacuum tube - Valence band - Varistor - Validation - Variable length buffer - Varicap - VDC - Vector field - Veroboard - Very-large-scale integration - Very high frequency - VHSIC hardware description language - Video - Video cassette recorder - Video teleconference - Video teleconferencing unit - Virtual circuit - Virtual circuit capability - Voice frequency - Voice frequency primary patch bay - Volt - Voltmeter - Vox
W
Wardenclyffe Tower - Watt - Wave - Wave impedance - Waveform - Waveguide - waveguide antenna - Wavelength division multiplexing - Wavelength - Warner exemption - White facsimile transmission - Wideband modem - Williams tube - Wink pulsing - whip antenna - Wire - Wire wrap - Wireless - Wireless access point - Wireless community network - Wireless network - Wireless personal area network - Wye-delta transform (see Y-delta transform)
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Y
Yagi antenna - Y-delta transform - YUV
Z
Z-transform - Zener diode - Zero-dispersion wavelength - Zero dBm transmission level point - Zig-zag in-line package - ZigBee - ZIF - Zone melting
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