parasitic current

[¦par·ə¦sid·ik ′kə·rənt]

(electricity)

An eddy current in a piece of electrical machinery; gives rise to energy losses.

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This comes about since the parasitic current flowing through the Rns of row i is excessive for the OA (even though the feedback resistor, Rg, has been chosen so there is no saturation of voltages of the OA in the selected range of individual resistors).

Improving Accuracy in the Readout of Resistive Sensor Arrays

If this process is interrupted, when the current is equal to zero, the parasitic current pulses will be avoided, therefore the energy consumption will be reduced.

The battery-driven electromagnetic flow converter with reduced power consumption/Maziau energijos imliu autonominio maitinimo elektromagnetinis skyscio srauto keitiklis

In these devices, the charging of native or deposited insulators may result in pinching off (i.e., reduction) of channel current and increases in parasitic current leakage at the semi-conductor-insulator interfaces.

GaAs radiation hardness

The electrical part benefits from the high level of integration and specific control of parasitic currents made possible by the Silicon-On-Insulator technology in the company's proprietary BCD(3) manufacturing process.