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    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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    point-contact transistor was commercialized and sold by Western Electric and others but was eventually superseded by the bipolar junction transistor, which was...
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  • 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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    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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  • Transistortransistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors. Its name signifies that transistors perform both the logic...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Junction transistor usually means bipolar junction transistor. It may also refer to: Grown-junction transistor Alloy-junction transistor Unijunction transistor...
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Bipolar transistors must be properly biased to operate correctly. In circuits made with individual devices (discrete circuits), biasing networks consisting...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    interference. Other unity gain buffer amplifiers include the bipolar junction transistor in common-collector configuration (called an emitter follower...
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  • (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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  • from the Heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is that the emitter–base interface is the same as in a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) with the blocking...
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