Field-effect transistor
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The field-effect transistor is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the current through a semiconductor. It comes in two types: junction FET and metal–oxide–semiconductor FET. F
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, who proposed the concept of a field-effect transistor in 1925.
Transistor
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A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. It is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics. It is composed of semiconductor material, u
Field-effect transistor
…The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the current through a semiconductor. It comes in two types: junction FET (JFET) and metal–oxide–semiconductor…
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John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs in 1948; Bardeen and Brattain invented the point-contact transistor in 1947 and Shockley invented the bipolar junction transistor in 1948.
A replica of the first working transistor, a point-contact transistor invented in 1947