Wdwd (CC BY 3.0). The high input impedance has another effect less coupled to small signal work. Where a bipolar transistor requires significant base current to turn itself on, the corresponding ...

That’s where FET drivers come in – it’s a small chip ... it has an NPN transistor, but its base driven through a capacitor, so that only the AC component of the driving signal gets through.

This germanium had an excess of electrons, but when an electric signal ... Brattain's transistor, current flowed towards the second gold contact. Think about what that means. A small current ...

Transistors are used in a wide variety of applications. They can act as amplifiers, taking a small input signal and making it larger. They can also be used as switches, turning an electrical signal on ...

But in 1951, Shockley improved upon the original idea with a junction transistor. The importance of this small item gradually sank in. The transistor was a solid (thus the term "solid-state ...