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Transistors Explained: Switching and Signal Amplification

This video explains how transistors work as switches and amplifiers in electronic circuits. Transistors control the flow of ...
Electronic Design

Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. The spread of h FE values in a batch of transistors may be wide enough to cause unreliable performance during mass production of a ...
EDN

An introduction to analog circuit design* Part 1: Transistors and Elementary Circuits

Modern circuit design is a “mixed signal” endeavor thanks to the availability of sophisticated process technologies that make available bipolar and CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor), ...
ZDNet

IBM targets 'DNA Transistor'; personal genetic testing for $100

IBM Research on Tuesday unveiled plans to create a “DNA transistor” that would result in personalized genetic testing for about $100 to $1,000. If successful, IBM could take genetic testing mainstream ...
Hackaday

Magazine Transistor Tester Lives Again

One of the lost pleasures of our modern world is the experience of going shopping at a grocery store, a mall, or a drugstore, ...
Electronic Design

Build A Smart Battery Charger Using A Single-Transistor Circuit

The following automatic battery-charger design is created with a circuit that could qualify as the simplest window comparator ever built around a single transistor (see the figure). It starts charging ...
Science Daily

Logic circuits with diamond-based transistors

Scientists have succeeded in developing logic circuits equipped with diamond-based MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors) at two different operation modes. This achievement is a ...