Flyback converter.
same spin state, resulting in emission of light
with a very short lifetime, typically nanosec-
onds.
fluorescent lamp
typically a lamp made
by exciting a low pressure discharge in mer-
cury vapor and other gases; mercury, when
excited in the discharge, predominantly emits
257 nm radiation (ultraviolet) which is ab-
sorbed by a phosphor on the inside wall of the
lamp tube; the phosphor fluoresces, emitting
a white light spectrum in the visible.
fluoroscopy
a mounted fluorescent screen
on which the internal structure or parts of
an optically opaque object may be viewed
as shadows formed by the transmission of X-
rays through the object.
flush
the act of clearing out all actions be-
ing processed in a pipeline structure. This
may be achieved by aborting all of those ac-
tions, or by refusing to issue new actions to
the pipeline until those present in the pipeline
have left the pipeline because their process-
ing has been completed.
flux
(1) lines that indicate the intensity
and direction of a field. Intensity is usually
represented by the density of the lines.
(2) a measure of the intensity of free neu-
tron activity in a fission reaction, closely re-
lated to power, the product of neutron den-
sity and neutron velocity, e.g., neutrons per
square cm per second.
flux density
lines of magnetic flux per unit
area, measured in tesla; 1
T = 1Wb/m
2
.
flux line
See
direction line
.
flux linkage
quantity that indicates the
amount of flux associated with a coil. Flux
linkage is denoted by the symbol
λ and
expressed in Webers (Wb) or Weber-Turns
(Wb-t). For a single turn coil, flux linkage is
the same as the flux. Flux linkages of an
N
turn coil are
Nφ Wb-t.
fluxmeter
an instrument that measures the
change in magnetic flux within a coil by in-
tegrating the induced voltage with respect to
time.
flyback converter
the isolated version of
the buck-boost converter. In this case, the
transformer is also an inductor that stores en-
ergy when the transistor is on and releases
energy to the output when the transistor is off.
The primary and the secondary of the trans-
former conduct alternately. The advantage of
this topology is that through the addition of
a second winding on the input inductor, i.e.,
to form a transformer, electrical isolation is
achieved. This type of transformer is called a
flyback transformer or flyback inductor. See
also
buck-boost transformer
.
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