The point-contact transistor was the first type of transistor to be successfully demonstrated. It was developed by research scientists John Bardeen and...

predictability and performance of junction transistors quickly displaced the original point-contact transistor. Diffused transistors, along with other components,...

transistor (FET) in 1925, but it was not possible to construct a working device at that time. The first working device was a point-contact transistor...

transistors at Bell Labs, the point-contact transistor in 1947. Shockley introduced the improved bipolar junction transistor in 1948, which entered production...

with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states...

as the focal point of information concerning an activity Point-contact transistor, the first type of solid-state electronic transistor ever constructed...

point-contact transistors and 550 diodes, manufactured by STC. It had a 48-bit machine word. The 1955 machine had a total of 200 point-contact transistors and 1...

Brattain instead inventing the point-contact transistor in 1947, which was followed by Shockley's bipolar junction transistor in 1948. The first FET device...

The whole structure comprises a four layered NPNP. The bipolar point-contact transistor was invented in December 1947 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories...

developed a voltage when exposed to light. The first working transistor was a point-contact transistor invented by John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and...

point-contact transistor. A point-contact transistor having three emitters. It became obsolete in the middle 1950s. Pentode field-effect transistors having...

often given as the birthdate of the transistor. What is now known as the "p–n–p point-contact germanium transistor" operated as a speech amplifier with...

transistorized computer using 92 point-contact transistors and 550 diodes in order to test the suitability of transistors in improving the reliability of...

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...

of Intermetall's hand-made transistors, based upon the 1948 invention of the "Transistor"-germanium point-contact transistor by Herbert Mataré and Heinrich...

electrical contacts connected to external circuits. When a pair of contacts is touching current can pass between them, while when the contacts are separated...

diodes, diode-connected transistors, or current-regulating diodes. Crystal rectifiers or crystal diodes These are point-contact diodes. The 1N21 series...

1948, another team member, John N. Shive, built a point contact transistor with bronze contacts on the front and back of a thin wedge of germanium,...

A fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) is a multigate device, a MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) built on a substrate where the...

Brattain invented the point-contact transistor at Bell Labs in 1947, followed by William Shockley inventing the bipolar junction transistor at Bell Labs in...

own with the emergence of transistor technology. The first working transistor, a germanium-based point-contact transistor, was invented by John Bardeen...

A unijunction transistor (UJT) is a three-lead electronic semiconductor device with only one junction. It acts exclusively as an electrically controlled...

until the transistor provided smaller and higher quality amplifiers in the 1950s. The first working transistor was a point-contact transistor invented...

electronic devices or functions, such as wires, batteries, resistors, and transistors, in a schematic diagram of an electrical or electronic circuit. These...

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...

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...

carriers in the semiconductor. An example of this is seen in the point-contact transistor. A Schottky diode is a single metal–semiconductor junction, used...

as an improvement over the point-contact transistor and the later grown-junction transistor and alloy-junction transistor. Both offered much higher speed...

FET, but failed in their repeated attempts. They discovered the point-contact transistor in the course of trying to diagnose the reasons for their failures...

Babbage's designs. In 1947, the first working transistor, the germanium-based point-contact transistor, was invented by John Bardeen and Walter Houser...