We break down the essential component of modern electronics—the transistor. Transistors are the building blocks behind most ...

The transistor and the PWM-switch, the core circuit of power converters, have interesting analogs. Both have three terminals, hence three configurations. They are active devices, and each has a key ...

This circuit is called a high-side switch – it enables you to ... voltage than the source pin for the FET to open. P-FETs are like PNP transistors, too – the gate pin of a P-FET needs to ...

Shrinking silicon transistors have reached their physical limits, but a team from the University of Tokyo is rewriting the ...

In case of an open circuit across capacitor C2 (probably due to an accidental ... of transistor was about 0.2V at a current of 20 mA, and the transistor switches current upto 9.8 mA.

emphasizing that transistors function as efficient switches with two states: on and off. The film demonstrates how these circuits can represent binary digits (0 and 1) and perform mathematical ...

They switch on with a base voltage of around 0.6V to 0.8V. Circuit diagrams often show transistors in switching circuits. For an ideal NPN transistor, the switch-on voltage at the base is ...

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...

Water is usually something you’d want to keep away from electronic circuits ... for water-based switches that are much faster than current semiconductor materials. Transistors are a fundamental ...