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In electronics, an active component is one that can be used to provide gain in an electronic circuit.
Examples
Examples of active components are
- junction diodes
- tunnel diodes
- step recovery diodes
- varactor diodes
- transistors,
- thyristors,
- fets
- mosfets
- thermionic diodes
- thermionic triodes
- thermionic tetrodes
- thermionic pentodes
- thermionic heptodes
- vacuum tubes.
"Active component"