At 10/24/2007 19:26, you wrote: >I would consider anything that uses a semi-condutor material to be >active, Silicon and Germanium transistors included.
According to Wikipedia, a passive device is a device that is not capable of power gain. If it is capable of power gain, it is an active device. If needed, I can probably dig up some definition in an IEEE reference that essentially says the same thing. Bob NO6B
