Acoustic Doppler Effect The change heard in the frequency of a sound when there is relative

motion between source and observer. The observed frequency increase

as the distance decrease.
Acoustoelectric Effect The development of DC voltage in a semiconductor or metal by an
acoustic wave travelling parallel to the surface of material.
Antenna Effect Undesired output signal that results from a directional array acting as a
nondirectional antenna in an electronic navigation system.
Auger Effect A nonradiative transition of an atom from an excited energy state to a
lower energy state, accompanied by the emission of and electron.
Avalanche Effect The cumulative process in which an electron or other charged particle
accelerated by a strong electric field collides with and ionizes gas
molecules, and thereby releasing new electrons that in turn have more
collisions.
Back-Porch Effect The continuation of collector current in a transistor for a short time
after the input signal has dropped to zero. The effect is due to storage
of minority carriers in the base region.
Barnett Effect The very slight magnetization produced in an iron rod when it is rotated
at high speed about an axis perpendicular to its length.
Bequerel Effect Phenomenon of a current flowing between two unequally illuminated
electrodes of a certain type when they are immersed in an electrolyte.
Binaural Effect Ability to determine the direction from which a sound is coming by
sensing the difference in arrival times of a sound wave at each ear.
Bulk Effect Occurs within the entire bulk of a semiconductor material rather than in
a localized region or junction.
Calzecchi-Onesti Effect Pertains to a change in the conductivity of a loosely aggregated metallic
powder caused by an applied electric field.
Channel Effect A leakage current that flow over a surface path between the collector
and emitter in some types of transistors.
Collector-Follower Effect Used in constructing a transformerless single-transistor flip-flop with a
conventional bipolar junction transistor.
Compton Effect The elastic scattering of photons by electrons. Since the total energy
and total momentum are conserved in the collisions, the wavelength of
the scattered radiation is changed by an amount that depends on the
angle of scattering, and part of the photon energy is transferred to
electrons.
Damon Effect Change that the susceptibility of a ferrite undergoes under the influence
of high RF powder.
Dead-End Effect Absorption of energy by unused portion of a tapped coil.
Debye Effect The selective absorption of electromagnetic waves by a dielectric, due
to molecular dipoles.
Debye-Sears Effect The generation of acoustic waves, consisting of alternate regions of
compression and refraction one half-wavelength apart, by a
piezoelectric crystal vibrating in a longitudinal mode in a liquid. When a
parallel beam of light sent through the liquid in a tank having plate-glass
walls, the acoustic waves act as a diffraction grating that can be used to
determine the velocity of sound in the liquid.
Dellinger Effect A type of shortwave radio fadeout believed to be caused by rapid
shifting of ionosphere layers during solar eruptions.
Dember Effect The development of a DC voltage between two regions of a
photoconductive semiconductor when one of the regions is illuminated,
by diffusion of an optically generated hole and electron pairs away from
the illuminated region.
Destriau Effect Sustained emission of light by suitable phosphor powders that are
embedded in an insulator and subjected only to the action of an
alternating electric field.
Doppler Effect The phenomenon of an apparent change in signal frequency when the
source and observer are in relative motion, the change being an
increase as the two approach each other, and the downward shifting as
the bodies separate. This is often witnesses with sound waves.
Dynatron Effect A negative resistance region evidenced in the E-I characteristic of a
tetrode when dc screen voltage exceeds dc plate voltage. The negative
slope of the plate current curve is due to the screens attractive
secondary electrons from the plate when screen voltage exceeds plate
voltage and the attendant reduction of plate current during the interval.
Early Effect The reduction of in the effective base width of a bipolar transistor when
the width of the collector-base PN junction is increased by increasing
the collector-base voltage.
Edge Effect An outward-curving distortion of lines of force near the edges of two
parallel metal plates that form a capacitor.
Edison and Richardson
Effect
The thermionic emission of electron from a hot filament sealed in an
evacuated bulb.
Edison Effect The emission of electrons from hot bodies. The rate of emission
increases rapidly with temperature.
Einstein-de Haas Effect The rotation induced in a freely suspended ferromagnetic object when
magnetization of the object is reversed.