A bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor...

field-effect transistor, or may have two kinds of charge carriers in bipolar junction transistor devices. Compared with the vacuum tube, transistors are generally...

point-contact transistor was commercialized and sold by Western Electric and others but was eventually superseded by the bipolar junction transistor, which was...

An insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is a three-terminal power semiconductor device primarily forming an electronic switch. It was developed to...

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

The heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is a type of bipolar junction transistor (BJT) which uses differing semiconductor materials for the emitter...

alloy-junction and grown junction processes for making bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). Bell Labs developed the first prototype diffused junction bipolar...

inventions in history. Transistors are broadly classified into two categories: bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and field-effect transistor (FET). The principle...

multi-transistor configuration called the Darlington configuration (commonly called as a Darlington pair) is a circuit consisting of two bipolar transistors...

Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors. Its name signifies that transistors perform both the logic...

combinations of p-type and n-type semiconductors; for example, the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is a semiconductor in the form n–p–n or p–n–p. Combinations...

in light-emitting diodes and laser diode Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) are formed from two p–n junctions, in either n–p–n or p–n–p configuration...

controlled switches or resistors, or to build amplifiers. Unlike bipolar junction transistors, JFETs are exclusively voltage-controlled in that they do not...

transistor (BJT) PNP bipolar junction transistor (BJT) NPN Darlington transistor PNP Darlington transistor NPN Phototransistor N-channel junction gate field-effect...

input current to control the load current, when compared to bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). In an enhancement mode MOSFET, voltage applied to the...

digital circuits built using resistors as the input network and bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) as switching devices. RTL is the earliest class of transistorized...

junction-gate field-effect transistors (JFETs), and in the active region for bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). A diode-connected transistor is made by connecting...

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...

An avalanche transistor is a bipolar junction transistor designed for operation in the region of its collector-current/collector-to-emitter voltage characteristics...

Junction transistor usually means bipolar junction transistor. It may also refer to: Grown-junction transistor Alloy-junction transistor Unijunction transistor...

The 2N3904 is a common NPN bipolar junction transistor used for general-purpose low-power amplifying or switching applications. It is designed for low...

common-emitter amplifier is one of three basic single-stage bipolar-junction-transistor (BJT) amplifier topologies, typically used as a voltage amplifier...

the area of a bipolar junction transistor.: 87  The main reason is that the MOSFET is self-insulating and does not require p–n junction isolation from...

transistor (MOSFET) designed to handle significant power levels. Compared to the other power semiconductor devices, such as an insulated-gate bipolar...

(53%) of the power transistor market, followed by the IGBT (27%), then the RF amplifier (11%), and then the bipolar junction transistor (9%). A power device...

logic gates Diffused planar silicon bipolar junction transistor, used in some integrated circuits. This transistor, apart from the three electrodes (emitter...

The germanium alloy-junction transistor, or alloy transistor, was an early type of bipolar junction transistor, developed at General Electric and RCA in...

Bipolar transistors must be properly biased to operate correctly. In circuits made with individual devices (discrete circuits), biasing networks consisting...

Bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS) is a semiconductor technology that integrates two semiconductor technologies, those of the bipolar junction transistor and the CMOS...

ohmic operation.[citation needed] For bipolar junction transistors the bias point is chosen to keep the transistor operating in the active mode, using a...