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up insulator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Insulator may refer to: Insulator (electricity), a substance that resists electricity Pin insulator, a
Insulator
Material that does not conduct an electric current
An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely. The atoms of the insulator have tightly bound electrons which cannot
Insulator_(electricity)
Genetic boundary element that blocks the interaction between enhancers and promoters
An insulator is a type of cis-regulatory element known as a long-range regulatory element. Found in multicellular eukaryotes and working over distances
Insulator_(genetics)
Materials classically predicted to be conductors, that are actually insulators
insulators are a class of materials that are expected to conduct electricity according to conventional band theories, but turn out to be insulators (particularly
Mott_insulator
State of matter with insulating bulk but conductive boundary
A topological insulator is a material whose interior behaves as an electrical insulator while its surface behaves as an electrical conductor, meaning
Topological_insulator
Technology in semiconductor manufacturing
manufacturing, silicon on insulator (SOI) technology is fabrication of silicon semiconductor devices in a layered silicon–insulator–silicon substrate, to
Silicon_on_insulator
Type of field-effect transistor
be used for amplifying or switching electronic signals. The term metal–insulator–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MISFET) is almost synonymous with
MOSFET
Metal–insulator–metal (MIM) diode is a type of nonlinear device very similar to a semiconductor diode and capable of very fast operation. Depending on
Metal–insulator–metal_diode
Electrical insulator
A strain insulator is an electrical insulator that is designed to work in mechanical tension (strain), to withstand the pull of a suspended electrical
Strain_insulator
Strongly correlated system with a narrow band gap at low temperatures
In solid-state physics, Kondo insulators (also referred as Kondo semiconductors and heavy fermion semiconductors) are understood as materials with strongly
Kondo_insulator
Group of phyllosilicate minerals
good electrical insulator at the same time as being a good thermal conductor. The leading use of block mica is as an electrical insulator in electronic
Mica
American ceramics manufacturer
Victor Insulators, Inc. is the oldest electrical insulator manufacturer in North America. Fred M. Locke, the company's founder, had been interested in
Victor_Insulators
American business executive (born 1969)
management positions. She is known for her work developing silicon-on-insulator semiconductor manufacturing technologies and more efficient semiconductor
Lisa_Su
Device providing electrical insulation of a wire from a supporting structure
A pin insulator is a device that isolates a wire from a physical support such as a pin (a wooden or metal dowel of about 3 cm diameter with screw threads)
Pin_insulator
Voltage at which insulator becomes conductive
The breakdown voltage of an insulator is the minimum voltage that causes a portion of an insulator to experience electrical breakdown and become electrically
Breakdown_voltage
49°47′54″N 24°04′31″E / 49.79833°N 24.07528°E / 49.79833; 24.07528 The Lviv Insulator Company Ltd (Ukrainian: Львівська ізоляторна компанія, L’vi’vska Izolja’torna
Lviv_Insulator_Company
Device for prevention of corona discharge on high-voltage equipment
discharge. Corona rings are used on very high voltage power transmission insulators and switchgear, and on scientific research apparatus that generates high
Corona_ring
High-voltage overhead power line based in the Philippines
pole-mounted porcelain insulator. Since the construction of Skyway Stage 3, the newer design is flag design with the deadend insulators (made of polymer/porcelain)
Sucat–Balintawak_230kV
Minimization of heat transfer
place severe mechanical stresses on spacecraft, so the strength of an insulator is critically important; the failure of insulating tiles on the Space
Thermal_insulation
Change between conductive and non-conductive state
Metal–insulator transitions are transitions of a material from a metal (material with good electrical conductivity of electric charges) to an insulator (material
Metal–insulator_transition
Device that generates sparks in internal combustion engines
threaded shell, electrically isolated from a central electrode by a ceramic insulator. The central electrode, which may contain a resistor, is connected by
Spark_plug
Lattice generalizations of the fractional quantum Hall effect
Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are lattice generalizations of the fractional quantum Hall effect that have been studied theoretically since 1993 and
Fractional_Chern_insulator
Museum in Komaki, Aichi, Japan
The Insulator Museum of the firm NGK Insulators, located in Komaki, Japan, is the only museum of porcelain insulators in the world. The museum contains
Insulator_Museum
producing industrial glassware such as jars, bottles, and electrical insulators. The company's business began as the Bushwick Glass Works in Brooklyn
Brookfield_Glass_Company
Topological insulators of magnetic materials
its volume behaves like an insulator. In contrast with a non-magnetic topological insulator, a magnetic topological insulator can have naturally gapped
Magnetic topological insulator
Magnetic_topological_insulator
Japanese ceramics company
Corporation (NGK株式会社) is a Japanese ceramics company. It primarily produces insulators but also produces other products, especially ceramic products. NGK is
NGK_Corporation
Component of the electrical power system
horns (sometimes arc-horns) are projecting conductors used to protect insulators or switch hardware on high voltage electric power transmission systems
Arcing_horns
Insulators for overhead lines with a nominal voltage above 1000 V – Ceramic or glass insulator units for a.c. systems – Characteristics of insulator units
List_of_IEC_standards
Spintronics-related effect
topological insulators, spin-split surface states exist independently from the Rashba effect, due to the surface topology. Topological insulators display
Rashba–Edelstein_effect
Material of moderate electrical conductivity
material with electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator. Its conductivity can be modified by adding impurities ("doping") to its
Semiconductor
Chemical compound
process or MOCVD process. The technology is known as lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI). Nanoparticles of lithium niobate and niobium pentoxide can be
Lithium_niobate
American glass manufacturing company
Muncie, Indiana. Although Hemingray was best known for its telegraph insulators, the company produced many other glass items including bottles, fruit
Hemingray_Glass_Company
In condensed matter physics and optics, a photonic topological insulator is an artificial materials that support topologically non-trivial, unidirectional
Photonic topological insulator
Photonic_topological_insulator
Strained silicon directly on insulator (SSDOI) is a procedure developed by IBM which removes the silicon germanium layer in the strained silicon process
Strained silicon directly on insulator
Strained_silicon_directly_on_insulator
Type of electronic converter
Within electronics, an Electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor (EIS) sensor is a sensor that is made of these three components: an electrolyte with the chemical
Electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor sensor
Electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor_sensor
American glass factory
buildings. Richard Wentzel, chapter in "Insulators: A History and Guide to North American Glass Pintype Insulators" by John & Carol McDougald (1990). John
Whitall_Tatum_Company
Piece of standing rigging on a sailing vessel
a result. Both effects are desirable as the wind increases. Backstay insulators, when used as a pair, are devices which allow for the electrical isolation
Backstay
Conduction of electricity through an insulator under sufficiently high voltage
called an electrical insulator or dielectric. All matter is composed of charged particles, but the common property of insulators is that the negative
Electrical_breakdown
Indian industrial conglomerate
like viscose staple fiber (VSF) and viscose filament yarn, chemicals and insulators, along with cement and financial services through its subsidiaries UltraTech
Grasim_Industries
Nonmetal due to charge transfer between atoms
Charge-transfer insulators are a class of materials predicted to be conductors following conventional band theory, but which are in fact insulators due to a
Charge-transfer_insulators
American Founding Father and polymath (1706–1790)
and Present Status of Electricity. Franklin was careful to stand on an insulator, keeping dry under a roof to avoid the danger of electric shock. Others
Benjamin_Franklin
Chemical compound
silicon-only technology. Silicon–germanium on insulator (SGOI) is a technology analogous to the silicon on insulator (SOI) technology currently employed in computer
Silicon–germanium
Use of high-pressure water jet for cleaning hard surfaces
Pressure washing or power washing is the use of high-pressure water spray to remove loose paint, mold, grime, dust, mud, and dirt from surfaces and objects
Pressure_washing
When an object takes in energy from sound waves instead of reflecting them
soft, pliable, or porous materials (like cloths) serve as good acoustic insulators - absorbing most sound, whereas dense, hard, impenetrable materials (such
Absorption_(acoustics)
Branch of physics
a topological insulator in accord with the earlier theoretical predictions. Since samarium hexaboride is an established Kondo insulator, i.e. a strongly
Condensed_matter_physics
Toy model for electronic localization
existence of a metal-insulator transition, since extended states can conduct, while localized states can not. However, metals, and insulators, are by definition
Aubry–André_model
Semiconductor materials with a larger band gap
properties which fall in between those of conventional semiconductors and insulators. Wide-bandgap semiconductors allow devices to operate at much higher voltages
Wide-bandgap_semiconductor
Simple model of topological insulator
an insulating phase. The finite SSH chain can behave as a topological insulator, depending on the boundary conditions at the edges of the chain. For the
Su–Schrieffer–Heeger_model
Category of chemical elements
semimetals, a subclass of metals. The rest of the nonmetallic elements are insulators, some of which such as silicon and germanium can readily accommodate dopants
Nonmetal
Materials with electrical properties that cannot be explained by non-interacting entities
include insulators and electronic materials, and show unusual (often technologically useful) electronic and magnetic properties, such as metal-insulator transitions
Strongly_correlated_material
Branching shapes
induction. After discharging a high-voltage point to the surface of an insulator, he recorded the resulting radial patterns by sprinkling various powdered
Lichtenberg_figure
Energy range in a solid where no electron states exist
the top of the valence band and the bottom of the conduction band in insulators and semiconductors. It is the energy required to promote an electron from
Band_gap
unconventional properties. Insulator Band insulator: A material that is insulating due to a band gap in its electronic spectrum Mott insulator: A material that
List_of_states_of_matter
Flow of electric charge
a conductor such as a wire, but can also flow through semiconductors, insulators, or even through a vacuum as in electron or ion beams. An old name for
Electric_current
Indoor sports arena in Japan
changed to Nippon Gaishi Hall, to reflect the sponsorship of the NGK Insulators. The capacity of the arena is 10,000 people. The hall hosted some of the
Nippon_Gaishi_Hall
Measure of the electric polarizability of a dielectric, compared with that of a vacuum
insulating material, and the dielectric constant of an insulator measures the ability of the insulator to store electric energy in an electrical field. Permittivity
Relative_permittivity
How the term nonmetal is used in many disciplines
hydrogen in a star Mott insulator – Materials classically predicted to be conductors, that are actually insulators Superconductor-insulator transition – Type
Nonmetallic_material
Tensioned cable designed to add stability to a freestanding structure
strikes. The insulators and arrestors must be maintained carefully, because an insulator failure can result in a mast collapse. Egg insulators have the porcelain
Guy-wire
State of matter
(and conductivity) between that of metallic conductors and non-metallic insulators. They can be found in the periodic table moving diagonally downward right
Solid
Electrically insulating substance able to be polarised by an applied electric field
electromagnetism, a dielectric (or dielectric medium) is an electrical insulator that can be polarised by an applied electric field. When a dielectric
Dielectric
Simplified model in condensed matter physics
consider. In general, insulators can be divided into Mott–Hubbard insulators and charge-transfer insulators. A Mott–Hubbard insulator can be described as
Hubbard_model
Electronic device
superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) – also known as a superconductor–insulator–superconductor tunnel junction (SIS) – is an electronic device consisting
Superconducting tunnel junction
Superconducting_tunnel_junction
United States historic place
Mica Insulator Company is a historic daylight factory complex located at Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York. The complex consists of the four-story
Mica_Insulator_Company
Proposed state of matter in semiconductors
state. Topological insulator and quantum spin Hall state are different symmetry-protected topological states. So topological insulator and quantum spin
Quantum_spin_Hall_effect
High-voltage overhead power line based in the Philippines
approximately 60m, consisting of 6 insulator units. These insulator units are the braced line post (BLP) and dead-end strain insulators. The design of the line and
Dasmariñas–Las_Piñas_230kV
Object or material which allows the flow of electric charge with little energy loss
the proton conductor of a fuel cell rely on positive charge carriers. Insulators are non-conducting materials with few mobile charges that support only
Electrical_conductor
Type of order at absolute zero
potential applications to fault-tolerant quantum computation. Topological insulators and topological superconductors (beyond 1D) do not have topological order
Topological_order
Tower from which electric power lines are suspended
conductor, an insulator string hanging down from the tower, or two strings making a "V" shape. In either case, sometimes several insulator strings are used
Suspension_tower
Measure of a substance's ability to resist or conduct electric current
good insulator, but its resistivity is sensitively dependent on moisture content, with damp wood being a factor of at least 1010 worse insulator than
Electrical resistivity and conductivity
Electrical_resistivity_and_conductivity
Type of transistor
although its electron transport depends on the gate's insulator or quality of oxide if used as an insulator, deposited above the inversion layer. Bardeen's
Field-effect_transistor
State of matter
These are used to explore the transition between a superfluid and a Mott insulator. They are also useful in studying Bose–Einstein condensation in fewer
Bose–Einstein_condensate
Applied electric field conductivity change
charge is placed on the left face of the insulator (for example using a metal "gate" electrode). In the insulator there are no charges so the electric field
Field_effect_(semiconductor)
Photonic systems which use silicon as an optical medium
with a similar construction in microelectronics) is known as silicon on insulator (SOI). Silicon photonic devices can be made using existing semiconductor
Silicon_photonics
Structure that repeats in time; a novel type or phase of non-equilibrium matter
Netanel H.; Refael, Gil; Galitski, Victor (2011). "Floquet topological insulator in semiconductor quantum wells". Nature Physics. 7 (6): 490–495. arXiv:1008
Time_crystal
Above-ground structure for bulk transfer and distribution of electricity
longer insulators must be used. Longer insulators with longer creepage distance for leakage current, are required in these cases. Strain insulators must
Overhead_power_line
Magnetic effect in insulators between ferromagnets
which is a component consisting of two ferromagnets separated by a thin insulator. If the insulating layer is thin enough (typically a few nanometres),
Tunnel_magnetoresistance
Mechanism by which materials form into and are attracted to magnets
ferromagnetic interactions. It is therefore a challenge to develop ferromagnetic insulators, especially multiferroic materials, which are both ferromagnetic and ferroelectric
Ferromagnetism
Chemical compound
for refrigeration or portable power generation. Bi2Te3 is a topological insulator, and thus exhibits thickness-dependent physical properties. Bismuth telluride
Bismuth_telluride
Electrical cable with concentric conductors
the dielectric insulator determine some of the electrical properties of the cable. A common choice is a solid polyethylene (PE) insulator, used in lower-loss
Coaxial_cable
Semiconductor light source
Constant-current diode (CLD, CRD) Gunn diode Varicap IMPATT diode Metal–insulator–metal diode (MIM diode) Transient-voltage-suppression diode (TVS diode)
Light-emitting_diode
Beverage insulator
family business called Better Wheel Workshops, which makes wooden can insulators originally known as the "Woodzie", settled a trademark dispute with the
Koozie
Device that converts electricity into heat
ceramic insulators are used. Aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, and magnesium oxide are compounds commonly used in ceramic heating element insulators. For
Heating_element
semiconductor material. It gets its name from the initials of the metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) structure. As with the MOS field-effect transistor
MIS_capacitor
Two major types of field effect transistors
arsenide and germanium chips, where it is difficult to make an oxide insulator. Some sources say "depletion type" and "enhancement type" for the device
Depletion and enhancement modes
Depletion_and_enhancement_modes
Proposed superconducting material
was that LK-99 is not a superconductor at room temperature, and is an insulator in pure form. A number of replication attempts identified non-superconducting
LK-99
State of matter with properties of both conventional liquids and crystals
VJ (June 11, 1998). "Electronic liquid-crystal phases of a doped Mott insulator" (PDF). Letters to Nature. Nature. 393 (6685). Macmillan: 550–553.
Liquid_crystal
Metal with a small negative indirect band-gap
electronic band theory, solids can be classified as insulators, semiconductors, semimetals, or metals. In insulators and semiconductors the filled valence band
Semimetal
Measures electrical breakdown of insulating materials
material. The carbonized areas are more conductive than the pristine insulator, increasing current flow, resulting in increased heat generation, and
Comparative_Tracking_Index
Chinese-American physicist (1963–2018)
He was a condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, the quantum Hall effect, the quantum spin Hall effect, spintronics, and
Shoucheng_Zhang
Thick layer of animal body fat
tissues due to its extra thickness, which acts as an efficient thermal insulator, making blubber essential for thermoregulation. Blubber is more vascularized—rich
Blubber
American mathematician (born 1945)
picture, in three or more dimensions there exists a transition from an insulator region, characterized by localized states, to a very different metallic
Abel_Klein
Chemical compound
is present both as Sm2+ and Sm3+ ions at the ratio 3:7. It is a Kondo insulator having a metallic surface state. It was first studied by soviet scientists
Samarium_hexaboride
Mixture of an insoluble substance microscopically dispersed throughout another substance
Plasma Insulator Mott insulator Semiconductor Semimetal Conductor Superconductor Thermoelectric Piezoelectric Ferroelectric Topological insulator Spin gapless
Colloid
Capital and largest city of Germany
between 1924 and 1926. It is the only observation tower which stands on insulators and has a restaurant 55 m (180 ft) and an observation deck 126 m (413 ft)
Berlin
Phase of hydrogen
gap of hydrogen in its uncompressed state is about 15 eV, making it an insulator but, as the pressure increases significantly, the band gap gradually fell
Metallic_hydrogen
Number of available physical states per energy unit
another state in the valence band. This determines if the material is an insulator or a metal in the dimension of the propagation. The result of the number
Density_of_states
Chemical compound
selenide and its insulating derivatives leading to intrinsic topological insulators, which later became the subject of world-wide scientific research. Bismuth
Bismuth_selenide
Hollow electrical insulator
In electric power, a bushing is a hollow electrical insulator that allows an electrical conductor to pass safely through a conducting barrier, such as
Bushing_(electrical)
Microchip manipulating light instead of electricity
electro-optic crystals such as lithium niobate, silica on silicon, silicon on insulator, various polymers, and semiconductor materials which are used to make
Photonic_integrated_circuit
Cable that provides power to electric railways, trams, and trolleybuses
put the controller into neutral and coast through section insulators, indicated by insulator markings between the rails. Melbourne has several remaining
Overhead_line
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Boy/Male
Arabic
Pious; Devotee
Boy/Male
Hindu
Immoveable, Firm, Unshakeable, Constant
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, German, Kurdish, Muslim, Turkish
Proud; Haughty; Vain
Girl/Female
German, Kurdish, Swedish
Strength of a Spear; Spear Maiden
Boy/Male
Indian
Who Won the Poison (Lord Shiva)
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Shakespearean
Henry VI, Part 1' Lord Talbot, afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury.
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Tamil
Right guidance, Happy, Scholar, Lady indian priest who full fill particularly completing the vedic haven
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Hindu
One who has everything, Prosperity
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English
Protected by God.
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Telugu
Born from Lotus; Lakshmi
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n.
One who, or that which, insulates.
n.
The substance or body that insulates; a nonconductor.
n.
A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.
n.
A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.
n.
A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.