Darlington configuration (commonly called as a Darlington pair) is a circuit consisting of two bipolar transistors with the emitter of one transistor...
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ULN2003A (section Darlington Transistor)
produced by Texas Instruments. It consists of an array of seven NPN Darlington transistors capable of 500 mA, 50 V output. It features common-cathode flyback...
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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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Darlington (July 18, 1906 – October 31, 1997) was an American electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair...
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Electronic symbol (section Transistors)
junction transistor (BJT) NPN Darlington transistor PNP Darlington transistor NPN Phototransistor N-channel junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET)...
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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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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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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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Sziklai pair (redirect from Compound transistors)
bipolar transistors, similar to a Darlington pair. In contrast to the Darlington arrangement, the Sziklai pair has one NPN and one PNP transistor, and so...
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A tetrode transistor is any transistor having four active terminals. There were two types of tetrode transistor developed in the early 1950s as an improvement...
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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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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 (redirect from Metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor)
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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Semiconductor device (section Transistor)
Three-terminal devices: Bipolar transistor Darlington transistor Field-effect transistor Insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) Silicon-controlled rectifier...
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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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Electronic component (section Transistors)
(BJT, or simply "transistor") – NPN or PNP Photo transistor – amplified photodetector Darlington transistor – NPN or PNP Photo Darlington – amplified photodetector...
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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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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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Amplifier (redirect from Transistor amplifier)
until the transistor provided smaller and higher quality amplifiers in the 1950s. The first working transistor was a point-contact transistor invented...
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2N7000 (category Commercial transistors)
"FETlington" is a reference to the Darlington-transistor-like saturation characteristic. A typical use of these transistors is as a switch for moderate voltages...
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semiconductors, including transistors, silicon controlled rectifiers, and, integrated circuits. TO stands for "Transistor Outline" and relates to a series...
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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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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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CMOS (redirect from CMOS transistor)
/siːmɑːs/, /-ɒs/) is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) fabrication process that uses complementary and symmetrical pairs...
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field-effect transistor (MuGFET) Power MOSFET Thin-film transistor (TFT) VMOS UMOS Other transistors Bipolar junction transistor (BJT) Darlington transistor Diffused...
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better current source approximation than the simpler enhancement-mode transistor can, especially when no extra voltage is available (one of the reasons...
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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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A nanoscale vacuum-channel transistor (NVCT) is a transistor in which the electron transport medium is a vacuum, much like a vacuum tube. In a traditional...
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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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Central processing unit (section Transistor CPUs)
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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