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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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point-contact transistor was commercialized and sold by Western Electric and others but was eventually superseded by the bipolar junction transistor, which was...
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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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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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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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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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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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transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the current through a semiconductor. It comes in two types: junction FET...
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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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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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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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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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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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MOSFET (redirect from Metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor)
steady-state or low-frequency conditions, especially compared to bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). However, at high frequencies or when switching rapidly...
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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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setting of the DC operating point of an electronic component. For bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), the operating point is defined as the steady-state DC...
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AF107 (category Bipolar transistors)
the European name for an early (c. 1960) germanium-based (A) bipolar junction transistor of PNP polarity intended for high frequency use (F). It shares...
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Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). Its name signifies that transistors perform both the...
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electronic circuits that reduce the storage time of a switching bipolar junction transistor (BJT) by applying a nonlinear negative feedback through various...
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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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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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semiconductor junction failures. Leakage current increases significantly in bipolar transistors (especially germanium-based bipolar transistors) as they increase...
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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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KT315 (category Bipolar transistors)
The KT315 is a Soviet silicon NPN bipolar junction transistor used for general-purpose low-power amplifying or switching applications, enclosed in the...
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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 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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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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2N2222 (category Bipolar transistors)
The 2N2222 is a common NPN bipolar junction transistor (BJT) used for general purpose low-power amplifying or switching applications. It is designed for...
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