Electronic Glossary

What Are Silver Mica Capacitors?   Silver Mica Capacitors are capacitors which use mica as the dielectric, which have great high-frequency properties due to low resistive and inductive losses, and are very stable over time.   There are two types …

Switch containing only one set of contacts which can be either opened or closed.

PCB design with only one route between adjacent DIP pins.

Varying in proportion to the sine of an angle or time function. AC voltage in which the instantaneous value is equal to the sine of the phase angle times the peak value.

What’s SIP Package?   Single-in-Line Package (SIP) is an IC package that has a single row of leads protruding from the bottom of its flat body. The package containing several electronic components (generally resistors). It is not as widely used …

Surface Insulation Resistance (SIR), a measure of the electrical resistance of the surface of an insulator. Its units are ohms, but normally quoted as ‘ohms per square’, reflecting the fact that the resistance value measured between conductors will depend linearly …

Skinny DIP (SKDIP) is a standard DIP with 0.1 in (2.54 mm) pin spacing, rows 0.3 in (7.62 mm) apart.

Describing the misalignment of a component or device to its proper mounting site.

Skin Effect is the tendency of an alternating electric current (AC) to become distributed within a conductor such that the current density is largest near the surface of the conductor and decreases exponentially with greater depths in the conductor. The …

Surface Mount Device (SMD), is an electronic device for which the components are mounted or placed directly onto the surface of the PCB.