2008
Oct 21

How do we define a semi-conductor? It's mainly made of materials with special electrical resistance (it is among the resistance of a conductor and a non-conductor). Variations of temperature or the part of “impurities” also change the resistance.

The material contains dashes if some other components have been mixed to it. The final mixture characterizes the semiconductors as semiconductor assembly of type-n or type-t.

Diodes as well as transistors are produced of those two kinds of semiconductors. Now silicon is surely appearing to be the most actual material for making semi-conductors.

Semiconductor substance is necessary to create diodes that are for putting the flow of electrical current only in one sense. In every single diode there is a component produced of positive and negative constructions (written as p- and n-) as well as of barrier level (known as pn-transfer). Electrical schemes which change among alternating and direct current are created with diodes. Because that diodes let current flow only in a single sense only a part of the processes or cycle passes by. They call such a connection a rectifier.

LED (or light diodes) is another type of diodes. They are used when it's necessary to create light at little voltages and at the same time generate no warmth. In personal computers, cameras and telephones, different equipment these days one may see light diodes as they are applied to sign the standby mode.

The development of thyristors industry was governed by Moore's law. The main side for manufacturinfg complex power semiconductor devices at smaller cost is today lithography. Concerning optical lithography, it eventually gives way to the development of other techniques as it has come to its physical limit. It is now actively being substituted by more modern ultraviolet lithography and nano-imprint lithography. Since recently scientists also consider x-ray lithography and electron beam lithography as good candidates.

In Russia voltage sensors were first created. Sensors are used everywhere for various destinations. The sensors meet their use in business, manufacture and everyday applications. The shape and value of the voltage sensor can change depending on the type of device. And the sensors may be little (as in several light detectors) or complicated (counters that sign radiation changes).

But if the current sensor is alone it can't work. The power system dispatchers are made to provide careful control over lots of operations like opening or blocking circuit breakers in substation, maintaining voltage, frequency, power flow and other system parameters, changing the scheduled interchange of power between the adjacent power systems, monitoring and working with various system signals.

For the dispatchers to do these tasks they must get a full information of the whole power system delivered from the monitors of PCs in different dependent stations. The developers of the RTU were the first to work out substation level data acquisition like state of CB's, fuses, isolators and analog values such as MW, Hz, KV and more. The biggest part in export is the prerogative of Russia and China.

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