An electronic component is a basic electronic element usually packaged in a discrete form with two or more connecting leads or metallic pads. Components are intended to be connected together, usually by soldering to a printed circuit board, to create an electronic circuit with a particular function (for example an amplifier, radio receiver, or oscillator). Components may be packaged singly (resistor, capacitor, transistor, diode etc) or in more or less complex groups as integrated circuits (operational amplifier, resistor array, logic gate etc).

List of electronic components

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There are many electronic components on the market today. Here is a list of some of them.

Interconnecting electronic components

• electrical connectors, plugs and sockets etc.
• printed circuit boards
• point-to-point construction
• wire-wrap
• breadboard

Passive components

• fuse
• capacitor
• inductor
• magnetic amplifier (toroid)
• piezoelectric crystal
• polyswitch
• resistor
• varistor
• transformer
• switch

Active components (solid-state)

• diode
  • light-emitting diode
  • photodiode
  • laser diode
  • Zener diode
  • Schottky diode
  • transient voltage suppression diode
  • variable capacitance diode
• transistor
  • field effect transistor
  • bipolar transistor
  • IGBT transistor
  • SIT/SITh (Static Induction Transistor/Thyristor)
  • Darlington transistor
  • Compound transistor
  • photo transistor
• integrated circuit
  • digital
  • analogue
• other active components
  • triac
  • thyristor
  • unijunction transistor
  • Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR)
  • MOS composite static induction thyristor/CSMT
  • Field-emitter microtube

Active components (thermionic)

• thermionic valve
• cathode ray tube
• klystron
• magnetron

Display devices

• cathode ray tube
• liquid crystal display
• light-emitting diode
• nixie tube

Electromechanical sensors and actuators

• microphone
• loudspeaker
• strain gauge
• switch

Thermoelectric devices

• thermistor
• thermocouple
• thermopile
• Peltier cooler

Photoelectric devices

• photomultiplier tube
• light-dependent resistor
• photodiode
• photovoltaic cell (solar cell)

Antennas

• radio antenna
• elemental dipole
• biconical
• Yagi
• phased array
• magnetic dipole (loop)
• parabolic dish
• feedhorn, waveguide

See also

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• Circuit Design

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