Möbius resistor

A Möbius resistance is a design of an electrical resistance, which has no inductance in the ideal case. It has the form of a Möbius strip and a conductive coating was developed in 1966 by Richard L. Davis.

The electric current flows in the Möbius resistor as shown in the adjacent sketch, in opposite directions on the electrically conductive coating of the Möbius strip. The opposing direction of current flow and at a low thickness of the tape, the magnetic flux is compensated as a result of the current flow, thereby the inductance of the arrangement is nearly zero.

Other electrical resistors have a larger, dependent inter alia on the shape and material of inductance. This property can be used in certain applications such as high-frequency technology, be undesirable.

Applications of the Möbius resistance and other low inductance designs are in the range of high frequency technology and as a shunt resistor with low inductance for measuring pulse currents.

Möbius resistors have little practical significance.