Composant semi-conducteurvignette|Aperçu de quelques dispositifs semi-conducteurs encapsulés Un composant semi-conducteur est un composant électronique dont le fonctionnement repose sur les propriétés électroniques d'un matériau semi-conducteur (principalement le silicium, le germanium et l'arséniure de gallium, ainsi que des semi-conducteurs organiques). Sa conductivité se situe entre les conducteurs et les isolants. Les composants semi-conducteurs ont remplacé les tubes à vide dans la plupart des applications.
Strongly correlated materialStrongly correlated materials are a wide class of compounds that include insulators and electronic materials, and show unusual (often technologically useful) electronic and magnetic properties, such as metal-insulator transitions, heavy fermion behavior, half-metallicity, and spin-charge separation. The essential feature that defines these materials is that the behavior of their electrons or spinons cannot be described effectively in terms of non-interacting entities.
Capacité électriqueEn électricité et en électronique, la capacité représente la quantité de charges électriques portées par un accumulateur, un condensateur ou un conducteur pour une tension donnée. Elle est définie comme étant la somme des charges électriques de l'élément divisée par le potentiel de l'élément : où : capacité (en farads (F)) ; charge (en coulombs (C)) ; différence de potentiel aux bornes de l'élément (en volts (V)).
Parasitic capacitanceParasitic capacitance is an unavoidable and usually unwanted capacitance that exists between the parts of an electronic component or circuit simply because of their proximity to each other. When two electrical conductors at different voltages are close together, the electric field between them causes electric charge to be stored on them; this effect is capacitance. All practical circuit elements such as inductors, diodes, and transistors have internal capacitance, which can cause their behavior to depart from that of ideal circuit elements.
Courant continu haute tensionthumb|upright=1.5|Convertisseurs à thyristors sur le pôle 2 de la ligne Inter-Island en Nouvelle-Zélande.thumb|upright=1.5|Symbole d'un convertisseur AC/DC. Le courant continu haute tension (CCHT), en anglais High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC), est une technologie d'électronique de puissance utilisée pour le transport de l'électricité en courant continu haute tension. Son utilisation est minoritaire par rapport au transport électrique à courant alternatif (AC) traditionnel de nos réseaux électriques.
Arséniure de galliumL'arséniure de gallium est un composé chimique de formule brute GaAs appartenant à la famille des semiconducteurs -. C'est un matériau semi-conducteur à gap direct présentant une structure cristalline cubique de type sphalérite (blende). Il est utilisé notamment pour réaliser des composants micro-ondes, des circuits intégrés monolithiques hyperfréquences, des composants opto-électroniques, des diodes électroluminescentes dans l'infrarouge, des diodes laser, des cellules photovoltaïques et des fenêtres optiques.
Saturation velocitySaturation velocity is the maximum velocity a charge carrier in a semiconductor, generally an electron, attains in the presence of very high electric fields. When this happens, the semiconductor is said to be in a state of velocity saturation. Charge carriers normally move at an average drift speed proportional to the electric field strength they experience temporally. The proportionality constant is known as mobility of the carrier, which is a material property.
Electrical resistance and conductanceThe electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the flow of electric current. Its reciprocal quantity is , measuring the ease with which an electric current passes. Electrical resistance shares some conceptual parallels with mechanical friction. The SI unit of electrical resistance is the ohm (Ω), while electrical conductance is measured in siemens (S) (formerly called the 'mho' and then represented by ℧). The resistance of an object depends in large part on the material it is made of.
Power semiconductor deviceA power semiconductor device is a semiconductor device used as a switch or rectifier in power electronics (for example in a switch-mode power supply). Such a device is also called a power device or, when used in an integrated circuit, a power IC. A power semiconductor device is usually used in "commutation mode" (i.e., it is either on or off), and therefore has a design optimized for such usage; it should usually not be used in linear operation. Linear power circuits are widespread as voltage regulators, audio amplifiers, and radio frequency amplifiers.
Small-signal modelSmall-signal modeling is a common analysis technique in electronics engineering used to approximate the behavior of electronic circuits containing nonlinear devices with linear equations. It is applicable to electronic circuits in which the AC signals (i.e., the time-varying currents and voltages in the circuit) are small relative to the DC bias currents and voltages. A small-signal model is an AC equivalent circuit in which the nonlinear circuit elements are replaced by linear elements whose values are given by the first-order (linear) approximation of their characteristic curve near the bias point.
