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    The point-contact transistor was the first type of transistor to be successfully demonstrated. It was developed by research scientists John Bardeen and...
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    transistor (FET) in 1926, but it was not possible to construct a working device at that time. The first working device was a point-contact transistor...
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    predictability and performance of junction transistors quickly displaced the original point-contact transistor. Diffused transistors, along with other components,...
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  • transistors at Bell Labs, the point-contact transistor in 1947. Shockley introduced the improved bipolar junction transistor in 1948, which entered production...
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  • as the focal point of information concerning an activity Point-contact transistor, the first type of solid-state electronic transistor ever constructed...
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    Brattain instead inventing the point-contact transistor in 1947, which was followed by Shockley's bipolar junction transistor in 1948. The first FET device...
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    fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for...
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    The whole structure comprises a four layered NPNP. The bipolar point-contact transistor was invented in December 1947 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories...
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    point-contact transistors and 550 diodes, manufactured by STC. It had a 48-bit machine word. The 1955 machine had a total of 200 point-contact transistors and 1...
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  • developed a voltage when exposed to light. The first working transistor was a point-contact transistor invented by John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and...
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    A fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) is a multigate device, a MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) built on a substrate where the...
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    An organic field-effect transistor (OFET) is a field-effect transistor using an organic semiconductor in its channel. OFETs can be prepared either by vacuum...
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    1948, another team member, John N. Shive, built a point contact transistor with bronze contacts on the front and back of a thin wedge of germanium,...
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  • 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 amplified...
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    of Intermetall's hand-made transistors, based upon the 1948 invention of the "Transistor"-germanium point-contact transistor by Herbert Mataré and Heinrich...
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  • as an improvement over the point-contact transistor and the later grown-junction transistor and alloy-junction transistor. Both offered much higher speed...
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    carriers in the semiconductor. An example of this is seen in the Point-contact transistor. A Schottky diode is a single metal–semiconductor junction, used...
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  • The transistor count is the number of transistors in an electronic device (typically on a single substrate or silicon die). It is the most common measure...
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  • A thin-film transistor (TFT) is a special type of field-effect transistor (FET) where the transistor is made by thin film deposition. TFTs are grown on...
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  • A unijunction transistor (UJT) is a three-lead electronic semiconductor device with only one junction. It acts exclusively as an electrically controlled...
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    Diode (redirect from Point contact diode)
    diodes, diode-connected transistors, or current-regulating diodes. Crystal rectifiers or crystal diodes These are point-contact diodes. The 1N21 series...
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    FET, but failed in their repeated attempts. They discovered the point-contact transistor in the course of trying to diagnose the reasons for their failures...
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    with uncertainty (electrical noise). The first working transistor was a point-contact transistor invented by John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain while...
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    were working without Shockley when they succeeded in creating a point-contact transistor that achieved amplification. By the next month, Bell Labs' patent...
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    technological step took several decades to appear, when the first working point-contact transistor was invented by John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain at Bell...
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    often given as the birthdate of the transistor. What is now known as the "p–n–p point-contact germanium transistor" operated as a speech amplifier with...
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  • A diffused junction transistor is a transistor formed by diffusing dopants into a semiconductor substrate. The diffusion process was developed later than...
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  • point-contact transistor. A point-contact transistor having three emitters. It became obsolete in the middle 1950s. Pentode field-effect transistors having...
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  • associated due to some similarities. The first working transistor was a point-contact transistor invented by John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain while...
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    Brattain invented the point-contact transistor at Bell Labs in 1947, followed by William Shockley inventing the bipolar junction transistor at Bell Labs in...
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