Don�t heap all the blame for a wrong measurement on the DMM. There can be several less obvious sources of the errors. Testing assemblies and components usually includes checking the continuity of ...

Insulation failure is the root cause of many electrical conductors and equipment failures. When insulation fails, not only can equipment be damaged, but fire and shock can also result. Ideally, when ...

Maybe the most common applications for very-low-value resistors (i.e., milliohms (mΩ) and below) are current-controlling circuits, where their low value reduces power losses. For these applications, a ...

Keithley Instruments, Inc. has published its seventh edition of the Low Level Measurements Handbook: Precision DC Current, Voltage, and Resistance Measurements. This 250-page paperback reference, ...

Cropico, a division of The Seaward Group, introduced the DO7010 portable digital microhmmeter. The ohmmeter is built to measure low resistance and bond resistance, with a measuring range of ...

In Episode 34 of EC&M Tech Talk, Electrical Trainer Randy Barnett covers three main points when it comes to earth resistance, also known as ground resistance. First, the National Electrical Code in ...

Occasionally, we find fun new electronic instruments in the wild and can’t resist sharing them with our readers. The item in question is the FNIRSI HRM-10 Internal resistance meter, which we show here ...

Unconventional metal structures have begun popping up in integrated circuits (ICs) with increasing regularity, for a number of reasons. The growing demand for integrated cameras and image recognition ...

At the 90-nanometer node and below, a progression of low-k dielectric materials is being introduced for IC interconnects to achieve smaller wiring dimensions at higher circuit speed. Compared with ...