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Transistors explained – what they are and what they do
They can amplify or switch signals with low power consumption, easily adapt to various circuit configurations ... What does "NPN" or "PNP" mean in terms of a transistor? "NPN" and "PNP" refer to the ...
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Biasing That Transistor Part 4: Don’t Forget The FET
There is another family of transistors which have analogous circuit configurations to their ... There are equivalent P-channel devices, just as there are PNP and NPN bipolar transistors.
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FET: The Friendly Efficient Transistor
If you ever work with a circuit that controls ... encounter a FET – a Field-Effect Transistor. Whether you want to control a couple of powerful LEDs, switch a USB device on and off, or drive ...
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Lesson 4
In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how ... between the emitter and the collector. The transistor acts like an insulator or a switch that is turned off. When a positive voltage ...
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Transistors Information
Transistors are small, versatile semiconductor devices designed to switch or amplify electronic signals ... century because of its abundant use in most modern circuits and electronic systems. NPN and ...
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Bipolar RF Transistors Information
Like all transistors, they are used to switch and amplify signals in digital and analog circuits. Bipolar transistors ... NPN (a p-region sandwiched between two n-regions) or a PNP (the opposite of an ...
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Integrated Circuits
As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...
Scientists Made a Transistor That Survives 100 Billion Switches—the Most Resilient Device Ever
The invention of the transistor in December 1947 is one of ... which alters the position of the boron and nitrogen atoms and ...
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New transistors switch at nanosecond speeds and deliver remarkable durability — ferroelectric material transistor could revolutionize electronics, say MIT scientists
Current transistor technology switch states in the order of hundreds of nanoseconds, but this new material could potentially cut this down to a fraction of that. This is crucial for high ...
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Nanoscale transistors could enable more efficient electronics
Silicon transistors, which are used to amplify and switch signals, are a critical component in most electronic devices, from smartphones to automobiles. But silicon semiconductor technology is ...
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Innovative transistor for reconfigurable fuzzy logic hardware shows promise for enhanced edge computing
Edge computing devices, devices located in proximity to the source of data instead of in large data centers, could perform computations locally. This could reduce latency, particularly in real-time ...