crystal detector
a device for rectifying a modulated radio-frequency signal, consisting of a crystal of germanium, silicon, galena, or the like with a cat whisker contact, permitting a high-frequency current to pass freely in one direction only: one of the two principal components of a crystal set.
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As a general rule, the radio-listener's first receiving set uses a crystal detector.
The Automobile Storage Battery | O. A. WitteThe crystal detector consists of some mineral crystal and a fine-wire point, usually platinum.
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son | John MillsIf you understand how the audion works as a detector you will have no difficulty in understanding the crystal detector.
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son | John MillsWhatever voltage there may be across the condenser of this circuit is applied to the crystal detector.
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son | John MillsThe crystal detector gives us much the same sort of a current as does the vacuum tube detector of Fig. 54.
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son | John Mills
British Dictionary definitions for crystal detector
electronics a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal
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