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threshold current

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threshold current

The minimum current needed to cause a device to activate.



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After 16 weeks, the researchers delivered electrical pulses to the heart of each animal and measured the threshold current needed to induce a ventricular defibrillation, Under normal conditions, monkeys fed sunflower-oil diets experienced arrhythmias at currents equal to half those needed to induce heart flutters in animals fed fish oil.
Parameter Typical value(5) Condition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Threshold Current 30 mA Tc=95 degrees C ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Operation Current 60 mA Po=5mW, Tc=95 degrees C ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.
Now Yariv and his colleagues say theyhave crossed the 1-mA milestone with a gallium arsenide laser that has a threshold current of 0.
 
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