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    A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. It is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics...
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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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    The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the current through a semiconductor. It comes in two types:...
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    junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor, such...
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    metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, MOS FET, or MOS transistor) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated...
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    A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Previous portable radios used vacuum tubes, which were bulky...
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  • A transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals for connection to an electric circuit. In the common case, the third terminal controls...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Resistor–transistor logic (RTL), sometimes also known as transistor–resistor logic (TRL), is a class of digital circuits built using resistors as the input...
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    Three-terminal devices: Bipolar transistor Darlington transistor Field-effect transistor Insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) Silicon-controlled rectifier...
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    A multiple-emitter transistor is a specialized bipolar transistor mostly used at the inputs of integrated circuit TTL NAND logic gates. Input signals are...
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  • Transistor may also refer to: Transistor (311 album), 1997 "Transistor" (song), the title track by the band 311 from the album Transistor Transistor (TNT...
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    Diode–transistor logic (DTL) is a class of digital circuits that is the direct ancestor of transistortransistor logic. It is called so because the logic...
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    CMOS (redirect from CMOS transistor)
    /siːmɑːs/, /-ɒs/) is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) fabrication process that uses complementary and symmetrical pairs...
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  • Transistor is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Supergiant Games. The game was released in May 2014 for Microsoft Windows and...
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    device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors. These components are etched onto a small...
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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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  • The Ladybug Transistor is a Brooklyn-based indie pop group associated with The Elephant Six Collective. Started in 1995 by Gary Olson, Edward Powers and...
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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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  • 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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    Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Moore's law is an observation...
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  • A thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD) is a type of liquid-crystal display that uses thin-film-transistor technology to improve image...
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  • An optical transistor, also known as an optical switch or a light valve, is a device that switches or amplifies optical signals. Light occurring on an...
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    continued to build processors out of bipolar transistortransistor logic (TTL) chips because bipolar junction transistors were faster than MOS chips up until the...
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    until the transistor provided smaller and higher quality amplifiers in the 1950s. The first working transistor was a point-contact transistor invented...
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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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    field-effect transistor (MuGFET) refers to a metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) that has more than one gate on a single transistor. The...
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    and their discovery of the transistor effect". Partly as a result of Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s...
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