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Temperature coefficient (tempco) is associated with nearly anything in physics. In electronics, it's the driving parameter for thermistors which may have a negative tempco (most common) where the resistance decreases as the temperature increases or a positive tempco where the resistance increases as the temperature increases.
Wire has a tempco, a parameter represented by the Greek letter "alpha" and may be either positive or negative, depending upon the material of which the wire is made.
Capacitors have a tempco, non-NP0 ceramic types often having severe tempcos that make them totally inappropriate for frequency-sensitive circuits such as oscillators and filters. The NP0 (that's en-pee-zero, not en-pee-oh) ceramics have a zero tempco and change very little (nothing's perfect) with a change in temperature.
Transistors and diodes change their characteristics as their junction temperatures change which is why circuit designs must be such that thermal runaway is not a possibility. Thermal runaway is when a junction heats up, it conducts more, heats up more, conducts more, etc. until the junction is destroyed.
Carbon resistors have a tempco, usually positive where the resistance increases as temperature increases. For most applications, this isn't a problem. If the resistors are used in precision voltage dividers such as for instrumentation (voltmeters, ammeters, attenuators, etc.), then precision metal film resistors are used, both for better initial and long-term accuracy and for a severely-reduced tempco.
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