Definitions

1. Transistors are commonly used in modern musical instrument amplifiers, where circuits up to a few hundred watts are common and relatively cheap.
2. Transistors are divided into two main categories: bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and field effect transistors (FETs).
3. Transistors were smaller and required lower voltages than vacuum tubes to work.
4. Transistors are very commonly used in today's instrument amplifiers, where circuits upto a few hundred watts are common and relatively cheap.
5. Transistors are embedded within the panel itself, reducing crosstalk between pixels and improving image stability. (Web site)

Floating-Gate Transistors

1. During rewrites, the gate oxide in the floating-gate transistors gradually accumulates trapped electrons. (Web site)

Active Devices

1. Its critical components are active devices, such as vacuum tubes or transistors.

Musical Instrument Amplifier Manufacturers Mix Transistors

1. Some musical instrument amplifier manufacturers mix transistors and vacuum tubes in the same circuit, to utilize the inherent benefits of both devices.

Modern Transistors

1. Silicon is also the semiconductor material out of which almost all modern transistors are made. (Web site)

Tiny Transistors

1. The integration of large numbers of tiny transistors onto a small chip was an enormous improvement to the manual assembly of finger-sized vacuum tubes.
2. Silicon-based semiconductor chips incorporate tiny transistors that manipulate electrons based on their charges. (Web site)

On-Off Switches

1. In typical computers, data is processed as ones and zeroes in on-off switches known as transistors. (Web site)

Separate Transistors

1. This configuration (originally realized as two separate transistors) was invented by Bell Laboratories engineer Sidney Darlington.

Point-Contact Transistors

1. They have been replaced by junction transistors, which are superior to point-contact transistors in nearly all respects.

P-N Junctions

1. Since transistors and ICs are made of semiconductors, and contain P-N junctions, almost every active component is potentially a photodiode.

Transistor-Transistor Logic

1. Transistor-Transistor Logic, a common type of digital circuit in which the output is derived from two transistors. (Web site)

Pnp Transistors

1. PNP transistors have two layers of p-type semiconductors sandwiching an n-type semiconductor. (Web site)

Npn

1. Most transistors used today are NPN because this is the easiest type to make from silicon. (Web site)

Four Transistors

1. Such a "bistable" circuit can be built with four transistors (for maximum density) or six (for highest speed and lowest power). (Web site)
2. A Boolean AND NOT gate can be constructed with four transistors.

Thyristors

1. Nowadays, the conversion is performed with semiconductor switching devices such as diodes, thyristors and transistors.

Npn Transistors

1. NPN transistors have two layers of n-type semiconductors sandwiching a p-type semiconductor. (Web site)
2. The silicon controlled rectifier is a four-layer device modeled as two interconnected pnp and npn transistors. (Web site)

Thin-Film Transistors

1. Some types of thin-film transistors have relatively slow switching speeds because of low carrier mobility. (Web site)

Spin Transistors

1. Possible applications include spin transistors and single electron transistors. (Web site)

Thin Film Transistors

1. An Organic Field-Effect Transistor (OFET) is a class of thin film transistors based on organic semiconductors.

First Transistors

1. The first transistors were all made out of germanium. (Web site)
2. Founded in 1959 in Danbury, CT, National Semiconductor was in the forefront of the first transistors and integrated circuits. (Web site)
3. The very first transistors were known as point-contact transistors.

Pmos Transistors

1. An important characteristic of a CMOS circuit is the duality that exists between its PMOS transistors and NMOS transistors. (Web site)
2. To achieve optimal performance of PMOS transistors the dopant needs to be as close to the surface of the channel as possible. (Web site)

Bipolar Junction Transistors

1. REVIEW: CMOS logic gates are made of IGFET (MOSFET) transistors rather than bipolar junction transistors. (Web site)
2. Bipolar junction transistors are formed from two p-n junctions, in either n-p-n or p-n-p configuration. (Web site)

Manner

1. Transistors constructed in this manner have two PN junctions, as shown in figure 2-2.
2. Junction transistors are manufactured in much the same manner as the PN junction diode discussed earlier.

Break

1. The engine control unit controls the transistors that break the ground side of the circuit, which generates the spark. (Web site)
2. The KWM-380 transceiver was introduced the next year – a break with the past both in its use of transistors and digital technology, and its styling. (Web site)
3. Real transistors, on the other hand, have definite limits to how much collector-emitter voltage they can withstand before they break down and conduct. (Web site)

Properties

1. A quantum computer makes use of the properties of quantum systems rather than transistors for performing calculations or storing information. (Web site)

Technology

1. This technology does not use regular bipolar transistors, but employs Field effect transistors instead.

Resulting

1. The load current of field effect transistors (FETs), is thereby reduced at constant drain-source voltage, resulting in lower power consumption. (Web site)

Fact

1. This fact is especially important for reducing the cost of transistors in large-area applications. (Web site)

Cells

1. Flash memory stores information in an array of floating-gate transistors, called "cells". (Web site)

Formation

1. Front-end processing refers to the formation of the transistors directly on the silicon. (Web site)

Bit

1. Flash memory stores information in an array of transistors, called "cells", each of which traditionally stores one bit of information.
2. In addition to such 6T SRAM, other kinds of SRAM chips use 8T, 10T, or more transistors per bit. (Web site)

Size

1. The 21264 contains 15,200,000 transistors, die size is 16.7mm x 18.8mm = 314 mm 2 power dissipation is about 90 Watts at 575MHz.
2. Over two billion transistors can fit on a microchip the size of your fingernail.

Work

1. As with the NAND gate, transistors Q 1 and Q 3 work as a complementary pair, as do transistors Q 2 and Q 4. Each pair is controlled by a single input signal. (Web site)

Piece

1. A silicon chip is a piece of silicon that can hold thousands of transistors.

Possible

1. These techniques made it possible to manufacture hundreds of transistors on a single slice of germanium or silicon.
2. Semiconductors make it possible to miniaturize electronic components, such as transistors. (Web site)
3. The development of a family of transistors has even made possible the miniaturization of electronic circuits.

Means

1. This means that very little power is dissipated by the transistors, except during the very short interval between the on and off states.

Performance

1. Such applications are still a long way off and require improving the performance of the transistors. (Web site)
2. In the most advanced logic devices, prior to the silicon epitaxy step, tricks are performed to improve the performance of the transistors to be built. (Web site)

Application

1. A possible future direct application of spin is as a binary information carrier in spin transistors.
2. The best known application of thin-film transistors is in TFT LCDs, an implementation of LCD technology. (Web site)

Process

1. For ICs, the process of floorplanning, implementing, and verifying the location of transistors and their connections within a chip design.

Images

1. Transistors come in many different packages (chip carriers) (see images).

Sound

1. Some audiophiles prefer the sound of tubes over transistors.

Themselves

1. This action allows the lower transistor to conduct normally, the two transistors "sealing" themselves in the "on" state. (Web site)
2. Planar transistors lend themselves well to mass production. (Web site)

Market

1. Transistors now perform numerous electronic tasks with new and improved transistor designs being continually put on the market.
2. Their first transistors were soon on the market, and the first batch of 100 was sold to IBM for $150 a piece. (Web site)

Materials

1. It is the unique properties of semiconductors, the materials from which transistors are made, that lie at the heart of the computer revolution. (Web site)

Operation

1. The ever increasing uses for transistors have created an urgent need for sound and basic information regarding their operation.
2. The theory of operation of the NPN and PNP transistors will be discussed separately in the next few paragraphs.

Small

1. At the other extreme, some surface-mount microwave transistors are as small as grains of sand. (Web site)
2. Industry now uses transistors as small as 65 nanometers.
3. A pervasive trend in modern integrated circuit manufacture is to produce transistors having feature sizes as small as possible. (Web site)

Input

1. For example, transistors are the workhorses of amplifier circuits, which produce an amplified, but otherwise identical (ideally), version of the input. (Web site)
2. CMOS circuits are constructed so that all PMOS transistors must have either an input from the voltage source or from another PMOS transistor. (Web site)
3. Similarly, all NMOS transistors must have either an input from ground or from another NMOS transistor. (Web site)

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