phase-switching


Also found in: Wikipedia.

phase-switching

n
(Astronomy) a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
References in periodicals archive ?
Embabi, "A 2.4-GHz monolithic fractional-N frequency synthesizer with robust phase-switching prescaler and loop capacitance multiplier," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol.
This architecture provides agile switching and phase coherence as well as frequency, amplitude, and phase-switching times of 170 ns with phase repeatability at all frequencies.
Caption: Forward Water's process improves the efficiency of osmotic water treatment by using phase-switching agents in a draw solution.
Their topologies are mainly focused on the phase-switching technique [7,8] and the injection-locked oscillator [9-11].
Dynamic Energy Saverao 2GIGABYTE Dynamic Energy Saverao 2 incorporates a host of intelligent features that use a proprietary hardware and software design to considerably enhance PC system energy efficiency, reduce power consumption and deliver optimized auto phase-switching for the CPU, Memory, Chipset, VGA, HDD and system fans.
I termed this separation technique to be "phase-switching" by moving from an aqueous to a nonpolar separation on the same cartridge.
The ceramics suitable for large-displacement actuator applications can be classified into three groups: piezoelectric, electrostrictive, and phase-switching (antiferroelectric to ferroelectric) materials.
In the phase-switching systems, materials transform from a macroscopically nonpolar state to a polar state as a result of an antiferroelectric-to-ferroelectric phase transition.