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Negative Resistance

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Re: Negative Resistance

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Great to see this discussion. My son displayed a science project on negative differential resistance 21 years ago. Had quite a few electrical engineers passing by with "the low brow" look. His device involved carbon fibers arranged in a cross shape placed inside of a cement mixture and compressed to ~8,000 psi during the cure stage (following the example of some published research).

Re: Negative Resistance

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Great to see this discussion. My son displayed a science project on negative differential resistance 21 years ago. Had quite a few electrical engineers passing by with "the low brow" look. His device involved carbon fibers arranged in a cross shape placed inside of a cement mixture and compressed to ~8,000 psi during the cure stage (following the example of some published research).

what does low brow mean?

Re: Negative Resistance

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I think it is very funny that the author has decided to start with a layman’s introduction to the concept of resistance after saying that you need familiarity with the behavior of operational amplifiers. Who is in that category of familiarity while still not having an intuition for resistance? Perhaps someone but how.

Re: Negative Resistance

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Great to see this discussion. My son displayed a science project on negative differential resistance 21 years ago. Had quite a few electrical engineers passing by with "the low brow" look. His device involved carbon fibers arranged in a cross shape placed inside of a cement mixture and compressed to ~8,000 psi during the cure stage (following the example of some published research).

what does low brow mean?

umm `surprised scrutiny and skepticism` perhaps ?

Re: Negative Resistance

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Great to see this discussion. My son displayed a science project on negative differential resistance 21 years ago. Had quite a few electrical engineers passing by with "the low brow" look. His device involved carbon fibers arranged in a cross shape placed inside of a cement mixture and compressed to ~8,000 psi during the cure stage (following the example of some published research).

There are apparently some very simple ways to achieve negative resistance in a home lab. For example

http://sparkbangbuzz.com/zinc-40-meter-xmtr/zinc-40-meter-xm...