OK, Martin, I am not going to argue. My first encounter with the term
was when my Elmer, W2OKE and an EE, referred to it when I was 16 years
old. At first, I thought he was joking, and the vision of buckshot
raining on a tin roof came to mind. Some time during the next 50 years,
I have a vague recollection of coming across the term in a text or other
technical source, seeing it spelled as Schott and saying, "Oh, yeah,
that's what Bob was talking about."
I just did a search on the Web, and found references to "Schott noise."
It is as I described and obeys an Arrhenius relationship, as you said.
It is spelled "Schott" though. OTOH, I should have said either "White"
or, as I have now discovered, "Gaussian" noise. "Schott" was the first
term that came to mind because it had been etched into my brain as a kid.
Sorry for the gaff on my part.
73, Joe
Martin AA6E wrote:
> Joe Giacobello wrote:
> ...
>
>> As far as "correlated Schotte noise" is concerned, I apparently did not
>> correctly remember the spelling of Schott's name, and Schotte would seem
>> to be another variation of the same German root, and that's the spelling
>> that came to mind at the time.
>>
> ...
>
> I know a little about "shot noise". That is noise caused by a current
> of discrete charges. Like buckshot falling on a glass surface.
>
> Then there was Prof. Schottky
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_H._Schottky) whose name is now
> associated with Schottky diode. According to wikipedia, he discovered
> the "Schrott effect". The word "Schrott" (= pellet) has nothing to do
> with "Schottky".
>
> So in English, it's shot noise, and the Schottky diode!
>
> 73 Martin AA6E
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