APPLICATIONS OF SEMICONDUCTORS IN INSTRUMENT DESIGN.

Abstract

Contents: Semiconductors and their role in modern technology; Thermistors and their fields of application; The choice of operating regimes for semiconductor thermistors; Certain types of semiconductor thermistors; Indirectly heated thermistors; Practical experience with thermistors of types ShT-1 and T-8; The application of semiconductors in computers for the construction of functional quadrupoles; Photoresistors and their basic parameters; PbO photoresistors; Metallurgical photoresistor photorelays; Applications of the hall effect in semiconductors; Experimental examination of detector-type current-measuring devices using point-contact and planar germanium diodes; Some possibilities of temperature self-compensation in rectifier voltmeters; Protective and automation relays using semiconductor rectifiers; Modulation of infrared rays by electric current in a germanium diode; Thermoelectric cooling and its use in instrument design; Variconds and their field of application; An investigation of the operation of variconds.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1960
Accession Number
AD0649456

Entities

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Detectors
  • Diodes
  • Electric Current
  • Germanium
  • Hall Effect
  • Photoresistors
  • Rectifiers
  • Semiconductors
  • Thermistors
  • Thermoelectric Cooling

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Electronics Engineering
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics