Properties of Potentially Inverse Multielement Two-Terminal Devices

Abstract

The capacity of potentially inverse multielement two-terminal devices to become complementary two-terminal devices under conditions that differ from the condition of invertibility is well known. For such two-terminal devices, both the generalized (classical) condition of complementarity and particular conditions in the form of a group of mathematical expressions are satisfied. Examples of potentially inverse two-terminal devices of the other form, which theoretically cannot be inverse two-terminal devices, are also known. For these two-terminal devices, the generalized condition of complementarity cannot be satisfied. It has been established for such two-terminal devices that, when the generalized condition of complementarity is not satisfied, the group of particular conditions of complementarity holds true and they become pseudocomplementary two-terminal devices. The number of the particular conditions of complementarity equals the number of the elements in the potentially inverse two-terminal devices of two structures selected. The number of the elements in the two-terminal devices and their connection have been justified. Variants of using pseudocomplementary two-terminal devices based on potentially inverse two-terminal devices are presented. The former devices allow a reduction of the number of inverse model elements in bridge circuits, the grounding of all multielement two-terminal devices present in the bridge circuits, and the manufacture of bridges with extended functional capabilities.