Abstract
In this paper we show that it is possible for BOD's to switch at incident light levels considerably smaller than the critical incident signals predicted by steady state theory. This effect may be large when the device has two time constants of roughly equal value. The discovery of overshoot switching may have significant impact on BOD's as their speed increases and the feedback time constants become comparable to their internal time constants.
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