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What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

Transistors are tiny electronic components that act as switches and amplifiers, and they dwell at the heart of modern technology. In simple terms, a transistor can turn a flow of electricity on or off ...
Electronic Design

First Field-Effect Transistor Available

A semiconductor amplifying device with up to 100-meg input impedance is now available from an American manufacturer. (Some French firms already have announced field-effect devices.) Crystalonics, ...
Nature

Metal-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors and Their Applications

Metal-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MESFETs) have long been pivotal in bridging fundamental semiconductor physics with high-performance electronic applications. As devices that combine metal ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Emergence Of The JJFET For Cryogenic and Quantum-Compatible Logic (Univ. of Glasgow)

A new technical paper titled “Silicon-based Josephson junction field-effect transistors enabling cryogenic logic and quantum technologies” was published by researchers at University of Glasgow. “The ...