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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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  • alloy-junction and grown junction processes for making bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). Bell Labs developed the first prototype diffused junction...
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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,...
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    IBM manufactured transistors by modifying off-the-shelf germanium diodes, after which they had their own alloy-junction transistor manufacturing plant...
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    {\displaystyle \mathbf {J} _{R}} ) Field current Generation current Alloy-junction transistor Capacitance–voltage profiling Deep-level transient spectroscopy...
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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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  • point-contact transistor and the later grown-junction transistor and alloy-junction transistor. Both offered much higher speed than earlier transistors. Point-contact...
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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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    2N107 (category Commercial transistors)
    The 2N107 is an early germanium alloy junction PNP transistor developed by General Electric (GE) in 1955, to become GE's entry into the electronic hobbyist...
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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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  • Spacistor (category Transistor types)
    was a type of transistor developed in the 1950s as an improvement over the point-contact transistor and the later alloy junction transistor. It offered...
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  • Power handling capability evolved rapidly, and by 1954 germanium alloy junction transistors with 100 watt dissipation were available. These were all relatively...
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    The surface-barrier transistor is a type of transistor developed by Philco in 1953 as an improvement to the alloy-junction transistor and the earlier point-contact...
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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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    used more than 50,000 germanium alloy-junction transistors and (faster) germanium diffused junction drift transistors. The 7090 used the Standard Modular...
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  • paper dealing with avalanche transistors was Ebers & Miller (1955). The paper describes how to use alloy-junction transistors in the avalanche breakdown...
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    Phase One computer, Flyable TRADIC, Leprechaun (using germanium alloy junction transistors in 1956) and XMH-3 TRADIC. TRADIC Phase One was developed to explore...
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    steady-state or low-frequency conditions, especially compared to bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). However, at high frequencies or when switching rapidly, a...
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  • IBM 7070 was the first transistor computer to be fully programmable. It had about 30,000 alloy-junction germanium transistors and 22,000 germanium diodes...
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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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    Walter Brattain of the grown-junction transistor. Also this year, General Electric and RCA develop the alloy-junction transistor. George Downing builds "The...
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    KT315 (category Commercial transistors)
    manufacturing was much cheaper than the alloy-junction technology, and the parameters surpassed those of earlier transistor types, in particular, the unity-gain...
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  • Silicon–germanium (category Silicon alloys)
    of silicon germanium alloys . The first mention of SiGe devices was actually in the original patent for the bipolar transistor where the idea of a SiGe...
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    Silicon (redirect from Silicon alloys)
    physical chemist Morris Tanenbaum fabricated the first silicon junction transistor at Bell Labs. In 1955, Carl Frosch and Lincoln Derick at Bell Labs...
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    Walter Brattain of the grown-junction transistor. Also this year, General Electric and RCA develop the alloy-junction transistor. July 10 Korean War: Armistice...
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    Problems with the reliability of early batches of point contact and alloyed junction transistors meant that the machine's mean time between failures was about...
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    Diode (redirect from Junction diode)
    Shockley ideal diode equation or the diode law (named after the bipolar junction transistor co-inventor William Bradford Shockley) models the exponential current–voltage...
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    fusible alloys, solders, and electronics. In the 1950s, tiny beads of indium were used for the emitters and collectors of PNP alloy-junction transistors. In...
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  • first mass-production alloy-junction transistor and used the fallouts or transistors that did not meet specifications as transistors to be sold at a much...
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    Antimony (section Alloys)
    the emitters and collectors of n-p-n alloy junction transistors were doped with tiny beads of a lead-antimony alloy. Indium antimonide (InSb) is used as...
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