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Transistor Intro

A transistor is a semiconductor device that amplifies or switches electronic signals and electrical power, and is composed of semiconductor material with at least three terminals. The first working transistor was invented in 1947 by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs. The most widely used transistor is the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor invented in 1959 by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs.

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Transistor Intro

A transistor is a semiconductor device that amplifies or switches electronic signals and electrical power, and is composed of semiconductor material with at least three terminals. The first working transistor was invented in 1947 by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs. The most widely used transistor is the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor invented in 1959 by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs.

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A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical

power. Transistors are one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics.[1] It is composed
of semiconductor material usually with at least three terminals for connection to an external
circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals controls the current
through another pair of terminals. Because the controlled (output) power can be higher than the
controlling (input) power, a transistor can amplify a signal. Today, some transistors are packaged
individually, but many more are found embedded in integrated circuits.
Austro-Hungarian physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld proposed the concept of a field-effect
transistor in 1926, but it was not possible to actually construct a working device at that
time.[2] The first working device to be built was a point-contact transistor invented in 1947 by
American physicists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain while working under William
Shockley at Bell Labs. The three shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their
achievement.[3] The most widely used type of transistor is the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-
effect transistor (MOSFET), which was invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell
Labs in 1959.[4][5][6] Transistors revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for
smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things.
Most transistors are made from very pure silicon, and some from germanium, but certain other
semiconductor materials are sometimes used. A transistor may have only one kind of charge
carrier, in a field-effect transistor, or may have two kinds of charge carriers in bipolar junction
transistor devices. Compared with the vacuum tube, transistors are generally smaller and require
less power to operate. Certain vacuum tubes have advantages over transistors at very high
operating frequencies or high operating voltages. Many types of transistors are made to
standardized specifications by multiple manufacturers.

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