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Introduction
Transistor Construction
Transistor Operation
Common-Base Configuration
Common-Emitter Configuration
Common-Collector Configuration
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1904 Vacuum tube diode was introduced by
J.A. Fleming
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1906 Lee De Forest added the third element,
called the control grid, to the vacuum diode
resulting to the first amplifier, the triode.
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1930s four-element tetrode and five-element
pentode
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1930s four-element tetrode and five-element
pentode
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1 milliion tubes in 1922 to 100 million in 1937
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December 23, 1947 invention of the first
transistor by Walter H. Brattain, John Bardeen
and William Shockley at Bell Telephone Labs.
1956 they received Nobel Prize for their
contribution
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Point-contact transistor the original
transistor
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Modern transistors
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Advantages of the Transistor:
It was smaller and lightweight.
It had no heater requirement or heater loss.
It had a rugged construction.
It was more efficient since less power was
absorbed by the device itself.
It was instantly available for use, requiring no
warm-up period.
Lower operating voltages were possible.
Transistor Construction
Ic = 0
Saturation region the base-emitter and collector-base
junctions are forward-biased.
Common-Base Configuration
Alpha ()