• A pentode transistor is any transistor having five active terminals. One early pentode transistor was developed in the early 1950s as an improvement over...
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    1970s, during which time transistors replaced tubes in new designs. During the first quarter of the 21st century, a few pentode tubes have been in production...
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    Nanofluidic transistor, controls the movement of ions through sub-microscopic, water-filled channels. Multigate devices: Tetrode transistor Pentode transistor Trigate...
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    Floating-gate MOSFET Transistor BSIM High-electron-mobility transistor Field-effect transistor JFET Tetrode transistor Pentode transistor Memristor Quantum...
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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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  • tetrode Multigate transistor Pentode transistor Wolf, Oswald; R. T. Kramer; J. Spiech; H. Shleuder (1966). Special Purpose Transistors: A Self-Instructional...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    electronic devices or functions, such as wires, batteries, resistors, and transistors, in a schematic diagram of an electrical or electronic circuit. These...
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    controlled sequentially, one by one, whereas AMOLED control uses a thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane to directly access and switch each individual pixel on...
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    transistor) Composite transistors BiCMOS (bipolar CMOS) IGBT (Insulated-gate bipolar transistor) Other transistors Bipolar junction transistor (BJT...
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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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    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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    packed into a single enclosure. They were designed to compete with early transistor electronics and were used in televisions, radios, and similar roles. The...
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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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  • 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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    junction transistor Field-effect transistor (FET) Junction Gate FET (JFET) Organic FET (OFET) Light-emitting transistor (LET) Organic LET (OLET) Pentode transistor...
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    Photodiode (redirect from Photo transistor)
    is a light-sensitive transistor. A common type of phototransistor, the bipolar phototransistor, is in essence a bipolar transistor encased in a transparent...
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    silicon transistor at around −2 mV/°C, so in a simple regulating circuit where the 4.7 V diode sets the voltage at the base of an NPN transistor (i.e. their...
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    in large quantities. This standardization began in the era of discrete transistor mainframes and minicomputers, and has rapidly accelerated with the popularization...
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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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    resistance of the epitaxial layer is more important than it is for a transistor, as the current must cross its entire thickness. However, it serves as...
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    which operates most like the pentode tube, although usually using much lower voltages, is the junction field-effect transistor (JFET). The 19th century saw...
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  • constructed using multiple individual vacuum tubes, multiple individual transistors, or multiple integrated circuits. The term is frequently used to refer...
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    electromechanical meter, which later came to be used on higher-end tuners when transistor sets lacked the high voltage required to drive the device. The same type...
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