Walter Brattain. The introduction of the transistor is often considered one of the most important inventions in history. Transistors are broadly classified...
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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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Following the invention of the transistor in 1947—a semiconductor device that amplifies and acts as an electronic switch, which revolutionized the field of consumer...
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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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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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A transistor computer, now often called a second-generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The first...
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history of the transistor, for which Riordan and Hoddeson won the inaugural Sally Hacker Award of the Society for History of Technology in 1999. The book...
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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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field-effect transistor (FinFET) is a multigate device, a MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) built on a substrate where the gate is...
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MOSFET (redirect from Metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor)
electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, MOS FET, or MOS transistor) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET),...
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in the history of the transistor. He was born in 1921 in Illinois, United States. He was the son of Helen and Clement Dacey. He died in 2010 in the United...
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Very-large-scale integration (redirect from History of VLSI)
consist of a CPU, ROM, RAM and other glue logic. VLSI enables IC designers to add all of these into one chip. The history of the transistor dates to the 1920s...
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William Shockley (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
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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Texas Instruments (redirect from History of Texas Instruments)
TI produced the world's first commercial silicon transistor in 1954, and the same year designed and manufactured the first transistor radio. Jack Kilby...
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Diode–transistor logic (DTL) is a class of digital circuits that is the direct ancestor of transistor–transistor logic. It is called so because the logic...
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are three types of unijunction transistor: The original unijunction transistor, or UJT, is a simple device that is essentially a bar of n-type semiconductor...
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Telephone Service for automobiles 1947: First working transistor (see History of the transistor) 1950: Semiconductor era begins 1956: Transatlantic telephone...
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Floating-gate MOSFET (redirect from Floating-gate transistor)
The floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS), also known as a floating-gate MOS transistor or floating-gate transistor, is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect...
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junction transistor is a transistor formed by diffusing dopants into a semiconductor substrate. The diffusion process was developed later than the alloy-junction...
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Germanium (redirect from History of germanium)
germanium is used as a semiconductor in transistors and various other electronic devices. Historically, the first decade of semiconductor electronics was based...
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Multigate device (redirect from Trigate transistors)
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 multiple...
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Clevite (redirect from Transistor Products Inc)
such as the German Intermetall in 1955 (a company founded in 1952 by pioneering German physicist and developer of the first "European" transistor Herbert...
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the transistor laser was ranked as a top five paper out of all of Applied Physics Letters’ history, and the transistor laser was called one of the top...
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"Twisted Transistor" is a song written and recorded by American nu metal band Korn for their seventh studio album, See You on the Other Side. It was released...
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Oskar Heil (category University of Göttingen alumni)
much in use at the present day. Heil is mentioned as the inventor of an early transistor-like device (see also History of the transistor), based on several...
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A Schottky transistor is a combination of a transistor and a Schottky diode that prevents the transistor from saturating by diverting the excessive input...
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Ira Flatow (redirect from Present at the Future)
about the history of the transistor called Transistorized!, which aired on PBS. He has talked about science on a number TV shows including The Merv Griffin...
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part of Invensys Compagnie des Freins et Signaux Westinghouse, a company in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France near Paris; see History of the transistor George...
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Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (category Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States)
engineer and physicist who has been credited with the first patent on the field-effect transistor in 1925. He was never able to build a working practical...
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