A bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor...
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An insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is a three-terminal power semiconductor device primarily forming an electronic switch. It was developed to...
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field-effect transistor, or may have two kinds of charge carriers in bipolar junction transistor devices. Compared with the vacuum tube, transistors are generally...
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alloy-junction and grown junction processes for making bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). Bell Labs developed the first prototype diffused junction bipolar...
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A heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is a type of bipolar junction transistor (BJT) that uses different semiconductor materials for the emitter and...
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point-contact transistor was commercialized and sold by Western Electric and others but was eventually superseded by the bipolar junction transistor, which was...
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instead inventing the point-contact transistor in 1947, which was followed by Shockley's bipolar junction transistor in 1948. The first FET device to be...
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inventions in history. Transistors are broadly classified into two categories: bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and field-effect transistor (FET). The principle...
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combinations of p-type and n-type semiconductors; for example, the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is a semiconductor in the form n–p–n or p–n–p. Combinations...
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Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors. Its name signifies that transistors perform both the logic...
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two bipolar transistors with the emitter of one transistor connected to the base of the other, such that the current amplified by the first transistor is...
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JFET (redirect from Junction Field-Effect Transistor)
controlled switches or resistors, or to build amplifiers. Unlike bipolar junction transistors, JFETs are exclusively voltage-controlled in that they do not...
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in light-emitting diodes and laser diode Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) are formed from two p–n junctions, in either n–p–n or p–n–p configuration...
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Junction transistor usually means bipolar junction transistor. It may also refer to: Grown-junction transistor Alloy-junction transistor Unijunction transistor...
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Electronic symbol (section Transistors)
transistor (BJT) PNP bipolar junction transistor (BJT) NPN Darlington transistor PNP Darlington transistor NPN Phototransistor N-channel junction gate field-effect...
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The grown-junction transistor was the first type of bipolar junction transistor made. It was invented by William Shockley at Bell Labs on June 23, 1948...
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An avalanche transistor is a bipolar junction transistor designed for operation in the region of its collector-current/collector-to-emitter voltage characteristics...
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Common emitter (redirect from Transistor phase reversal)
common-emitter amplifier is one of three basic single-stage bipolar-junction-transistor (BJT) amplifier topologies, typically used as a voltage amplifier...
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junction-gate field-effect transistors (JFETs), and in the active region for bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). A diode-connected transistor is made by connecting...
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digital circuits built using resistors as the input network and bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) as switching devices. RTL is the earliest class of transistorized...
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Bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS) is a semiconductor technology that integrates two semiconductor technologies, those of the bipolar junction transistor and the CMOS...
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Power semiconductor device (redirect from Power transistor)
(53%) of the power transistor market, followed by the IGBT (27%), then the RF amplifier (11%), and then the bipolar junction transistor (9%). A power device...
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Bipolar transistors must be properly biased to operate correctly. In circuits made with individual devices (discrete circuits), biasing networks consisting...
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the area of a bipolar junction transistor.: 87 The main reason is that the MOSFET is self-insulating and does not require p–n junction isolation from...
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logic gates Diffused planar silicon bipolar junction transistor, used in some integrated circuits. This transistor, apart from the three electrodes (emitter...
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2N3904 (category Bipolar transistors)
The 2N3904 is a common NPN bipolar junction transistor used for general-purpose low-power amplifying or switching applications. It is designed for low...
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Power MOSFET (redirect from Super junction)
transistor (MOSFET) designed to handle significant power levels. Compared to the other power semiconductor devices, such as an insulated-gate bipolar...
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The germanium alloy-junction transistor, or alloy transistor, was an early type of bipolar junction transistor, developed at General Electric and RCA in...
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MOSFET (redirect from Metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor)
input current to control the load current, when compared to bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). In an enhancement mode MOSFET, voltage applied to the...
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make a PNP or NPN bipolar junction transistor (BJT) equivalent. This model is theoretical and qualitative. To make a PNP transistor, the cathodes of both...
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