Electronic component
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An electronic component is a basic electronic element usually packaged in a discrete form with two or more connecting leads or metallic pads. Components are intended to be connected together, usually by soldering to a printed circuit board, to create an electronic circuit with a particular function (for example an amplifier, radio receiver, or oscillator). Components may be packaged singly (resistor, capacitor, transistor, diode etc) or in more or less complex groups as integrated circuits (operational amplifier, resistor array, logic gate etc).
Very often electronic components are mechanically stabilized, improved in insulation properties and protected from environmental influence by being enclosed in synthetic resin
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[edit] List of electronic components
There are many electronic components on the market today. Here is a list of some of them.
[edit] Interconnecting electronic components
- electrical connectors, plugs and sockets etc.
- printed circuit boards
- point-to-point construction
- wire-wrap
- breadboard
[edit] Passive components
- fuse
- capacitor
- inductor
- magnetic amplifier (toroid)
- piezoelectric crystal
- polyswitch
- resistor
- varistor
- transformer
- switch
[edit] Active components (solid-state)
- diode
- transistor
- integrated circuit
- other active components
[edit] Active components (thermionic)
[edit] Display devices
[edit] Electromechanical sensors and actuators
[edit] Thermoelectric devices
[edit] Photoelectric devices
- photomultiplier tube
- light-dependent resistor
- photodiode
- photovoltaic cell (solar cell)
[edit] Antennas
- radio antenna
- elemental dipole
- biconical
- Yagi
- phased array
- magnetic dipole (loop)
- parabolic dish
- feedhorn, waveguide
[edit] See also
de:Liste elektronischer Bauteile es:Componente electrónico fr:Composant électronique hr:Elektronička komponenta he:רכיב אלקטרוני id:Komponen elektronik it:Componente elettronico no:Elektriske komponenter sv:Elektronisk komponent
