Varactor diode- In electronics a varactor diodeis a
Diode- A two terminal device that allows current to pass
only in one directon.
Small signal diode- There are very many small types of
signal diodes available in both wire inded and surface
mount (SMT)format. They differ from rectifier diodes in
several ways, they generally have smaller junction areas
giving the junction less capacitance making them a more
useful at higher frequencies.
Large signal diode- Is a common analysis method. Used in
electronics engineering to describe nonlinear device in
terms of the underlying nonlinear equations.
Zener diode- A zener diode is a particular type of diode,
that unlike a normal one, allows current to flow not only in
from its anode to its cathode, but also in the reverse
direction, when the zener voltage is reached.
LED- A light emitting diode is a semiconductor light source
that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in
the semi conductor light source that emits light when
current flows through it. Electrons in semi conductor
recombine with electrons holes, releasing energy in the form
of photons. This effect is called elctroluminescene.
Constant current diode- Is an electronic device that limits
current to a maximal specified value for the device. It is
known as current limiting diode (CLD),and current
regulating diode(CRD).
Schottky diode- Also known as schottky barrier diode or
hot carrier diode, is a semi conductor diode formed by the
junction of a semi conductor with a metal.
Shockley diode- Is a four layer semi conductor diode,
which was one of the first semi conductor device invented.
It was a "pnpn'" diode. It is equivalent to a thyristor with a
disconnected gate
Step recovering diode- Take a general step up chopper
with voltage source which is in series with the inductor
,diode and the load.
Tunnel diode- Is a type of semiconductor diode that has
negative resistance due to the quantum mechanical effect
called tunelling.
type of diode designed to exploit the volatage
dependent capacitance of a reversed biased p-n
junction.
Laser diode- Is a semiconductor device that similar
to light emitting diode in which the laser beam is
created at the diode's junction.
Transient Voltage Diode- Is an electronics
components used to protect electronics from
volatage spikes induced on connected wires.
Pieltier Diode- Thermoelectric cooling uses the
peltier effect to create a heat flux between the
junction of two different types of materials. A peltier
cooler, heater,or thermoelectric.
Crystal Diode- Close up view of silicon diode. The
anode is at the right side, the cathode is at the left
side. The square silicon crystal can be seen between
the two leads.
Avalanche Diode- Is a diode form from silicon or
another, that is designed to experience avalanche
breakdown at a specified reverse bias voltage.
Pin Diode- Is a diode with a wide.un doped intrinsic
semi conductor region between a p-type semi
conductor and an n-type semiconductor region.
Gun Diode- Is a form if diode, a two terminal
passive semiconductor electronic component, with
negative resistance, used in high-frequency
electronics.
Gold doped Diode- As a dopant,gold acts are
recombination centers, which help a fast
recombination of minority carrier. This allows the
diode to operate at signal frequencies, at the expense
of a higher forward voltage drop
Super Barrier Diode- A central component to a
power circuit, or any type of circuit where a signal
needs to be conditioned is a rectifying diode.
Traditionally diodes from one of two families are
used in these application. The pn-junction diode and
schottky barrier diode.
Silicon Controlled Diode- A silicon controlled rectifier or
semi conductor controlled rectifier is a four layer solid state
current controlling davice.
Vacuum Diode- It consist of two electrodes, a cathode, and
an anode plate. The cathode emits the free electrons. In
between the cathode and anode an empty space is
present,through which the free electrons or electric current
flow.
Point Contact Diode- Is a formed by touching a metallic
wire with an N-type semiconductor to form a small area of
contac
Transistor- is an active components that amplify signal
and energy.
Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT)- are transistors which
are built up of 3 region. Base,Collector,Emitter.
-A small current entering in the base region of transistor
cause a much large a current flow from the emitter to the
collector region.
Field Effect Transistor (FET)- Are made in 3 region.
Gate , source, drain
- A voltage controlled Transistor.
Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor(HBT)- Used for digital
and analog microwave application w/ frequencies as high as
kuband . HBT an supply faster switching speeds than silicon
bipolar transistor mostly beacause at reduced base resistance
and collector to substrate capacitance.
Darling Transistor- "Darling pair" is a transistor circuit
that is made from two transistor. It is a transistor but it
has much higher ability to gain current. This circuit can
be made in two discrete transistor.
It is helpful for an audio amplifiers or in a probe
thatmeasured very small current that goes through the
water.
Multiple Emitter Transistor- Inputs siganals are applied
the emitters. Use to inpute transistor, transistor logic
(TTL) NANND logic gate. It replace diode of DTL and
degree to reduction of switching time and power
dissuption.
Schottkry Transistor- is a combination of a transistor and
a schottky diode that prevents the transistor from
saturating by diverting the excessive input current.
DUAL GATE MOSFET- It is used in many RF and
other application where 2 controls gate are required
in series. It is fundamentally a form of MOSFET
where two gate are made up along the length of the
channel one after other.
JUNCTION FET TRANSISTOR
(JUGFET/JFET)-
There are two basic configuration of junction field
effect transistor. The N-channel doped with donor
impurities meaning the flow through the channel is
negative.
Avalanche transistor- Designed for process in the
region of its collector current/collector to emitter
breakdown voltage called avalanche breakdown an
accurance is similar to town send discharge gases
and negative differential resistance.
Diffusion Transistor- The original diffusion
transistor diffused base transistor. These transistor
still had alloy emiites sometimes alloy collectors like
the earlier alloy junction transistor.
Transformer- Is a statistic device which transfer
electrical energy from one circuit to another through
the process of electromagnetic induction.
Power Transformer-This is the most common type
of transformer widely used in electric power
transmission and appliances to convert main voltage
to low voltage t power electronic device.
Pulse Transformer- Is a transformer that is
optimized for transmitting rectangular electrical
pulse.
Potential transformer- This transformer operate
power transformer, but only difference is these are
small capacity transformer.
Combined Instrument Transformer- This type of
transformer converts voltage and current to the
standaralized low and measurable value which are
useful for metering protection and other high voltage
control system.
Reasonant transformer- It is a high voltage transformer
that consists of two high Q coil (primary'secondary)that are
wounded on either same ferrite or core with capacitors are
connected across the windings.
Instrument Transformer- it is used to protect or isolate the
metering equipment, relays,instrument, and other control
device from the circuit which is operating at high voltage
and current and which electrical quantities are to be a
measured.
Air core Transformer- These are used for high frequency
work. The lack of core means very low inductance.
Ferrite core Transformer- Are widely used in impedance
matching transformers for RF especially for baluns for TV
and Radio antennas.
Transmission-line Transformer- For radio frequency use,
transformers are sometimes made from configuration of
transmission line, sometimes bifiliar or co axial
cable,wound around ferrite or other type of cor
Audio Transformer- Are those specifically designed for
use in audio circuits to carry audio signal.
RF Transformer- There are several types of transformer
used in radio frequency (RF)work. Laminated steel is not
suitable for RF.
Toroidal core type transformer- A toroid is a coil of
insulted or enameled wire wound on a donut-shaped form
made of powdered iron. A toroid is used as an inductor in
electronic circuits,especially at low frequencies where
comparatively large inductances are necessary. In a toroid,
all the magnetic flux is contained in the core material.
Laminated core transformer- One type of construction
consist of a simple rectangular laminated piece of steel with
the transformer winding wrapped around two sides of the
rectangle. In either case, the core is constructed of thin
lamination electrically isolated from each other in order to
minimize eddy currents.
Auto Transformer- An autotransformer is an electrical
transformer with only one winding. The "auto" prefix refers
to the single coil acting alone, not to any kind of automatic
mechanism. In portion of the same winding act as both the
primary and secondary sides of the transformer.
Polyphase Transformer- A transformer with multiple
sets of primary and secondary windings on a single
core; used in a polyphase circuit.
Oil cooled transformer- transformer oil or insulating
oil is an oil that is stable at high temperatures and has
excellent electrical insulting properties.
Grounding transformer- Is a type of auxilairy
transformer used in three-phase electric power system
to provide a ground path to either an ungrounded wye
or a delta-connected system. Grounding transformers
are part of an earthing system of the network.
Leakage transformer- Is an inductive component that
results from the imperfect magnetic linking of one
winding to another
Isolating Transformer- Is a transformer used to
transfer electrical power from a source of alternating
current power to some equipment or device while
isolating the powered device from the power source,
usually for safety reason.
Current transformer- Is a type of transforrmer that is
used to measure alternating current. It produces a
proportional to the current in its primary.
Rotary Transformer- Is specialized tranformer used
to couple electrical signal between two pats that rotate
in relation to each other. They may be either
cylindrical or pancaked shape.
Inductor- Is the passive electrical components that
stores energy in magnetic field with electric current
flows through it.
Iron core Inductor- These inductors have high
inductance value but limited high. These are
applicable in radio equipment.
Ferrite core Inductor- Also referred as ferromagnetic
material.
Soft ferrite –these material will have the ability to
reverse their polarity of their magnetization w/o any
particular amount of energy needed reverse the
magnetic polarity
 values .
Hard ferrite- PERMANENT MAGNET. These will keep
the polarity of magnetization even after removing magnetic
field.
Iron Powder Inductor- These are formed from very fine
particles w/ insulted particle of highly pure iron powder.
Laminated core Inductor- These are used in low frequency
detectors.
Bobbin Based Inductor-These are mainly use for mounting
on PCB
Toroidal Inductor-These are mainly used in medical devices,
switching regulators air conditioners, refrigerator,
telecommunication and musical instrument.
Multi-layer ceramic Inductor- it gives us lower operating
frequencies and higher inductance. These are having
application at high frequencies to supplies in signal processing
models like wireless, LAN, Bluetooth.
Film inductor- thus according to the requirement this film is
shaped for inductor application. Film inductors in thin size are
suitable for DC to Dc converters that serve as power supplies
in the smart phones and mobile device.
Variable inductors- it is a formed moving the magnetic core
in and outside inductor windings.this is used in radio
frequency application where the tunning is required.
Coupled Inductor- These can isolate two circuits electrically
by transferring impedance through the circuit. A transformer is
one type of coupled inductor.
Air core Inductor- A ceramic core inductor. These are mainly
used in high frequency application where low inductance
value required
Resistor- is a passive components that oppose the flow of
current in a circuit.
Wire wound Resistor- generally reserved for high power
application. These resistors are made by winding wire with a
high than normal resistance
Metal film Resistor- These are resistors are made from
metal oxide or small rods of ceramic coated metal. This
resistors can be obtained in a wide range of resistance
Thin film Resistor- are made by sputtering some
resistive material on to an insulating substrate . This
have a better temperature coefficient, lower
capacitance, low parasitic inductance and low noise.
Thick film Resistor- are produced by firing a
special paste onto the substrate. The paste is a
mixture of glass and metal oxides.
Surface mount resistor- These are made by
depositing a film of resistive material and dont have
enough space or color-code bands owing to small
size.
Fixed resistor- they are used in electronics circuits
to set the right condition in a circuit.
Variable Resistor- this gives 3 connection to the
components:two connected to the fixed element,and
third is the slider . In this way the component acts
as a variable potential divider if all three
connection are used.
Metal oxide film resistor-this type of resistor is
now the most widely used form of resistor . Rtather
than using a carcon film, this resistor type uses a
metal oxide film deposited on a ceramic rod.
Varistor Resistor - thet are vary their resistance
with the applied voltage and as a result they find
uses spike and surge protection.
Nonlinear Resistor- Is one whose resistance
depends on the voltage.
Fusible Resistor- A resistor designed to protect a
circuit against overload; its resistance limits current
to flow and thereby protects against surges when
power is first applied to a circuit; its fuse
characteristics opens the circuit when current drain
exceeds design limits.
Carbon Film Resistor- This resistor typed is
formed by cracking a hydrocarbon onto a ceramic
former. This made these resistors are highly
inductive and of little use for RF application.
Potentionmeter- Is a three-terminal resistor with a Operational Amplifier-with high gain and high
sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable input impedance , used especially in circuits for
voltage divider. If only two terminals are used, one end performing mathematical operations on an input
the wiper, it acts as a variable resistor or rheostat. voltage.

Rheostat- is a variable resistor which used to control Voltage regulator IC- Maintains the output voltage
currents. They are able to vary the resistance in the circuit at a constant value. Voltage regulator maintain such
without interruption. fluctuations, is a popular voltage regulator IC.

Trimmer- is a miniature adjustable electrical component.
It is meant to be set correctly when installed in some
device user.
Cermets Film Resistor-is a composite material
composed of ceramic and metal materials, cermets are
used in the manufacture of resistors, capacitors, and other
electronic components which may experience high
temperature
CMOS IC- Is a technology for constructing IC. It is
used in microprocessors, microcontrollers, statistic
RAM, and other digital logic circuits. It allows a
high density of logic functions on a chip.
Mixed IC- Is any IC that has both analog circuits
and digital circuits and digital circuits on a single
semiconductor die. It also process a both analog and
digital signal together.

Photo Resistor-is a light controlled variable resistor. The
resistance of a photo resistor decreases with increasing
incident light intensity; in other words, it exhibits
photoconductivity.
Linear Resistor-is the type of resistor whose resistance
remains constant with increase in the potential difference
or voltage applied.
Digital IC- has a finite number of discrete input
and output states. . It operates over a continuous
range of input levels.
Linear IC- Is a solid state analog device
characterized by a theoretically infinite number of
possible operating states. It operates over a
continuous states range of input levels.

Integrated Circuit- is a small chip that can function as

amplifier, oscillator, timer, microprocessor, or even
computer memory.

Logic IC- this IC are designed using logic gate that work
with binary input and output. these are mainly used as
decision makers.

Timer IC- Are special purpose integrated circuits used

for the purpose of counting and to keep a track of time in
intended application.

Monolithic IC- A special type of RFIC is known as a

monolithic microwave IC. These circuits usually run into
2-to 100-GHz range,or microwave frequencies and are
used in radar system, in satellite communication, and as
power amplifiers for cellular telephones.

Hybrid IC- is a miniaturized electronic circuit

constructed of individual devices such as semi conductor
device.