Category:Electronic components

Illustrations of the 'Fleming Valve', the first useful vacuum tube, 1905

Topics pertaining to components such as capacitors, resistors, diodes and switches

Subcategories

• Capacitors - formerly known as a condenser, a passive two terminal electrical component used to store energy in an electric field. All contain at least two electrical conductors separated by a dielectric
• Coils - the twirling of a conductor wound around a core to form an inductor or electromagnet
• Component architectures - the design and layout of devices such as inductors, capacitors, and diodes
• Connectors - devices that join electrical circuits together as an interface
• Diodes - a two-terminal electronic component with a nonlinear current-voltage characteristic
• Electrodes - an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of the circuit
• Fuses - an electrical protection device, designed to fail when current becomes too powerful
• Inductors - also called reactors or coils, a passive two-terminal electrical component used to store energy in a magnetic field
• Resistors - a passive, two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical resistance
• Switches - a component that can break an electrical circuit by blocking or diverting the current
• Transducers - a component which converts one type of energy into another, usually for measurement or information transfer
• Triodes - an electronic amplification device having three active electrodes