The classic transistor amplifier circuit then has a pair of resistors ... the ratio of upper bias resistor to lower one being about 2 to 1. You can make hay in the comments and poke it full ...

Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor.

The gate is how a transistor controls the flow of current between the source and drain terminals and can act as both a switch and amplifier. Wrapping this gate around all sides of a source (or ...

Chtaube,(CC BY-SA 2.0 DE) A basic FET has ... amplifier rather than a current amplifier, its input impedance is many orders higher than that of a bipolar transistor, and thus you will find FETs ...

Bardeen and Brattain produced the world’s first semiconductor amplifier—the point-contact transistor was born. Spurred on by this first discovery, Shockley developed an improved transistor ...