picohenry

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noun

One trillionth (10⁻¹²) of a henry.

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Meanings

nounpicohenry (plural picohenrys or picohenries)

plural picohenrys · plural picohenries

  1. One trillionth (10⁻¹²) of a henry.

    Parasitic inductances need to be kept below a picohenry and amplifiers need to have bandwidth approaching a gigahertz to keep the loss below 10% of the real power

    2007, Attma Sharma, Xuelin Wu, Khai D. T. Ngo, Fred C. Lee, Ming Xu, Yuancheng Ren, Andy Schmit, “Issues in the Delivery of RF Current Pulses to a Microprocessor”, in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, volume 22, number 1, →DOI, page 104

Origin

From pico- + henry.

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