• The tetrode field-effect transistor or field-effect tetrode is a solid-state semiconductor device, constructed by creating two field-effect channels back-to-back...
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  • A tetrode is a vacuum tube (called valve in British English) having four active electrodes. The four electrodes in order from the centre are: a thermionic...
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  • emitter-base junction from which it is insulated by a silica layer. Field-effect tetrode Multigate transistor Pentode transistor Wolf, Oswald; R. T. Kramer;...
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  • Tetrode can refer to: Tetrode, an electronic device with four active electrodes, such as a vacuum tube Beam tetrode Field-effect tetrode, a solid-state...
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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...
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    magnitude (10 times) or considerably more. Tetrode transistors (whether bipolar junction or field-effect) do not exhibit improvements of such a great...
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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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    anode current region of operation of the conventional tetrode tube was limited by the detrimental effect of secondary emission from the anode at anode potentials...
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    Spartan FPGA from Xilinx A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a type of configurable integrated circuit that can be repeatedly programmed after manufacturing...
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    still amplify well. Pentodes (and tetrodes) tend to have a much lower feedback capacitance, due to the screening effect of the second grid. Pentodes tend...
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  • A ChemFET is a chemically-sensitive field-effect transistor, that is a field-effect transistor used as a sensor for measuring chemical concentrations...
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    thermionic tube (valve) tetrodes and pentodes.[citation needed] Constriction of the conducting channel is accomplished using the field effect: a voltage between...
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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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    MOSFET Transistor BSIM High-electron-mobility transistor Field-effect transistor JFET Tetrode transistor Pentode transistor Memristor Quantum circuit Quantum...
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    Adding one or more control grids within the tube, creating the triode, tetrode, etc., allows the current between the cathode and anode to be controlled...
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    An ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) is a field-effect transistor used for measuring ion concentrations in solution; when the ion concentration...
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    photodetector Sziklai pair (compound transistor, complementary Darlington) Tetrode transistor – is any transistor having four active terminals. Thyristors...
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    holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor, such as a field-effect transistor (FET), uses only one kind of charge carrier. A bipolar transistor...
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    Bio-FET (category Field-effect transistors)
    A field-effect transistor-based biosensor, also known as a biosensor field-effect transistor (Bio-FET or BioFET), field-effect biosensor (FEB), or biosensor...
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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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    channels. Multigate devices: Tetrode transistor Pentode transistor Trigate transistor (prototype by Intel) Dual-gate field-effect transistors have a single...
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    A Zener diode is a type of diode designed to exploit the Zener effect to affect electric current to flow against the normal direction from anode to cathode...
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    Gunn diode (redirect from Gunn effect)
    resistance, used in high-frequency electronics. It is based on the "Gunn effect" discovered in 1962 by physicist J. B. Gunn. Its main uses are in electronic...
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    to the tetrode, called the suppressor grid, to repel the electrons back toward the plate. This tube was called the pentode. Electron-cloud effect Malter...
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    mode, P‑channel MOSFET Vacuum tube diode Vacuum tube triode Vacuum tube tetrode (pin letters not part of symbol) Vacuum tube pentode For multiple pole...
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    a solid state version of the dynatron oscillator which normally uses a tetrode thermionic valve (vacuum tube). The tunnel diode showed great promise as...
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    of metal, with a ceramic base. Triodes and a few tetrodes and pentodes were made; nuvistor tetrodes were taller than triodes. Nuvistors are among the...
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    meaning 'path'. The word diode however was already in use, as were triode, tetrode, pentode, hexode, as terms of multiplex telegraphy. Although all diodes...
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    through the use of Nixie tubes constructed from materials that avoid the effect (e.g. by being free of silicates and aluminum), or by programming devices...
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    Pentode Photomultiplier Phototube Tetrode Triode Vacuum tubes (RF) Backward-wave oscillator (BWO) Cavity magnetron Crossed-field amplifier (CFA) Gyrotron Inductive...
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