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Transistor

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. It is composed of semiconductor material, usually with at least three terminals for connection to an electronic circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals…

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Component type
Active
First produced
1950s
Invention year
1947
Inventor
John Bardeen · Walter Brattain · William Shockley
Pin names
Base, collector, and emitter

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Comparison with vacuum tubes

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Transistor

Nodes285
Edges284
Triples429
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007018
Components1

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related to Other transistor types · 96
Transistor → ABB, Also, Ballistic, Base1, Base2, Bio-FET, Bipolar, BJT, BJTs, Carbon, CMOS, CNFET, CNTFET, Complementary MOS, Deoxyribonucleic, Diffusion, DNAFET, Dual-gate, Each IGBT, Effectively
related to Further reading · 67
Transistor → Alfred Gronner, Amos SW, An Inventor, Analogue, Anniversary, Archived, Bacon, Bit, Butterworth-Heinemann, Cambridge University Press, Circuits, Company Limited, Crystal Fire, CS1, Dana Roberts, Digital Electronics, Ed, Electronics, February, Heat Transfer
related to Bipolar transistors · 29
Transistor → According, AT, Bardeen, Bell Labs, Brattain, December, FET, From November, Having, Instead, John, John Bardeen, Lilienfeld's, Lillian Hoddeson, Murray Hill, New Jersey, Nobel Prize, Physics, Pierce, Shockley
related to MOSFET (MOS transistor) · 26
Transistor → After, Bell Labs, By, Carl Frosch, D'Asaro, Dawon Kahng, Derick, Following, Frosch, Gummel, IC, In, LaBate, Ligenza, Lincoln Derick, Lindner, Mohamed Atalla, MOS, MOSFET, Povilonis
related to Classification · 24
Transistor → Amplification, Application, BJT, BJTs, Electrical, Extreme, FETs, IGBT, IGFET, JFET, Maximum, MOSFET, N-channel, NPN, P-channel, Packaging, Physical, PNP, RF, Semiconductor
related to External links · 20
Transistor → All, American Physical SocietyTransistor, BBC, Bell Systems Memorial, Britannica, Building, December, Definition, Encyclopædia Britannica, First Transistor, From, Invention, November, Physics History, Portable Electronics Archived February, The Transistor, This Month, TransistorsIEEE Global History Network, Uses, Wayback Machine
related to Field-effect transistors · 15
Transistor → Dacey, FET, Following Shockley's, George, Heinrich Welker, Ian, In, JFET, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, MESFET, Oskar Heil, Ross, The, The FET, William Shockley
related to history · 13
Transistor → Because, Canada, Europe, FET, He, However, In, Lilienfeld's, Oskar Heil, Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, The, United States, William Eccles
related to Bipolar junction transistor (BJT) · 12
Transistor → Because, Bipolar, BJTs, By, Collector, In, It, Since, The, They, This, Two
related to European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association (EECA) · 12
Transistor → BC327-25, BC549C, BUK854-800A, EECA, GaAs, Manufacturers Association, Pro Electron, Suffixes, The, The European Electronic Component, This, With

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transistors semiconductor silicon used power current junction field-effect mosfet fet voltage devices first device gate germanium base collector bipolar made

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TransistorComponent typeActive1.00infobox
TransistorFirst produced1950s1.00infobox
TransistorInvention year19471.00infobox
TransistorInventorJohn Bardeen1.00infobox
TransistorInventorWalter Brattain1.00infobox
TransistorInventorWilliam Shockley1.00infobox
TransistorPin namesBase, collector, and emitter1.00infobox
Transistoris asemiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power0.90text
smartphonesinstance ofin applications ranging from computers and electronics to communications technology0.80text
logic gatesinstance ofboth for high-power applications such as switched-mode power supplies and for low-power applications0.80text
amplifiers because of their greater linearityinstance ofthe BJT remained the transistor of choice for many analog circuits0.80text
up until MOSFET devicesinstance ofthe BJT remained the transistor of choice for many analog circuits0.80text

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