Abertay University has hosted the launch of the Engineering Development Trust’s Tayside Go4SET programme. The initiative encourages school…
Semiconductor materials classification
Semiconductor materials contain not only elements, but also chemical compounds. Semiconductors can be organic and non-organic, crystalline and…
Dielectric polarization and it’s kinds
Polarization is a dielectric state when every unit of a dielectric volume has its electrical moment. There are…
Shift current – conductivity of dielectrics
The polarisation processes of charge shift, until the equilibrium state of dielectrics, are followed by shift current (polarisation…
Dielectric losses
Dielectric losses is the electrical power that is wasted by heating the dielectric in the electric field. Energy…
Dielectric breakdown
A dielectric in electromagnetic fields can lose its insulator properties if the field exceeds some critical value. The…
Quiz
What types of electric current conductors exist? What is the physical meaning of Fermi level? What is the…
A temperature check on the state of education technology
At last week’s Bett Show Helen Moran, Director, Shift Learning, a research agency specialising in education technology, unveiled…
The concept of electric circuits
Electric circuits and electromagnetic field theory are essential for any electrical engineering field. Many branches such as power…
Charge / electrical current
This post answers the question "What is the definition of electric charge?". The concept of charge is a…