Whois & Analysis for jameco.com

Jameco Electronics is an American electronic component and tool distributor.

It was founded in 1974 by Dennis Farrey in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, California and is currently headquartered in Belmont, California, where it also operates a brick and mortar store.

Semiconductors are crystalline or amorphous solids with distinct electrical characteristics.

They are of high electrical resistance — higher than typical resistance materials, but still of much lower resistance than insulators.

Their resistance decreases as their temperature increases, which is behavior opposite to that of a metal.

Finally, their conducting properties may be altered in useful ways by the deliberate, controlled introduction of impurities ("doping") into the crystal structure, which lowers its resistance but also permits the creation of semiconductor junctions between differently-doped regions of the extrinsic semiconductor crystal.

The behavior of charge carriers which include electrons, ions and electron holes at these junctions is the basis of diodes, transistors and all modern electronics.

In engineering, electromechanics combines electrical and mechanical processes and procedures drawn from electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.

Electrical engineering in this context also encompasses electronics engineering.

A power supply is an electronic device that supplies electric energy to an electrical load.

The primary function of a power supply is to convert one form of electrical energy to another and, as a result, power supplies are sometimes referred to as electric power converters.

Some power supplies are discrete, stand-alone devices, whereas others are built into larger devices along with their loads.

Examples of the latter include power supplies found in desktop computers and consumer electronics devices.

An electronic component is any basic discrete device or physical entity in an electronic system used to affect electrons or their associated fields.

Electronic components are mostly industrial products, available in a singular form and are not to be confused with electrical elements, which are conceptual abstractions representing idealized electronic components.