Transistors come in different flavors. Tubes used an electric field to regulate current flow, and researchers wanted to find something that worked the same way without the drawbacks like vacuum and ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

In this online engineering specialization, you will master the fundamentals of semiconductors and evaluate the performance of electronic devices by completing courses in semiconductor physics, PN ...

Junction Field Effect Transistors (JFETs) Market · GlobeNewswire Inc. Dublin, Jan. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Junction Field Effect Transistors (JFETs) Market Report 2026" has been added to ...

Phoenix, Ariz. — ON Semiconductor has expanded its low Vce (sat) bipolar junction transistor (BJT) portfolio to include WDFN6, WDFN3, SOT-23, SOT-563 and ChipFET packages. These new devices are said ...

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .

Fairchild Semiconductor brings audio equipment designers bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) that meet the performance needs of today’s home, music and commercial audio applications. Fairchild’s BJT ...

The term "quantum junction transistors" (QJTs) may conjure images of dilithium crystals, flux capacitors, and other imaginary power technologies, but an early demonstration run of Nottingham-based ...

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 ...

It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar transistor amplifier configurations. This doesn’t come up as often as it used to, but it is still a good ...

What is a P-N Junction? A p-n junction is a fundamental building block of modern electronics, formed by joining together two types of semiconductor materials: p-type (positive) and n-type (negative).