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== Background == | == Background == | ||
[[Image:3124 - silicon transistor.jpg|thumb|left|First Texas Instruments silicon transistor]] | <p>[[Image:3124 - silicon transistor.jpg|thumb|left|First Texas Instruments silicon transistor]] </p> | ||
<p>Julius Edgar Lilienfeld received a US patent 1745175 for what we now know as a MESFET in 1925. </p> | <p>Julius Edgar Lilienfeld received a US patent 1745175 for what we now know as a MESFET in 1925. </p> | ||
<p>On 26 January 1954 [[Morris Tanenbaum | <p>On 26 January 1954 [[Morris Tanenbaum|Morris Tanenbaum]] of [[Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] first achieved amplification in an NPN silicon [[Transistors|transistor]]; this may have been the first silicon transistor ever fabricated, but [[Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] kept the achievement secret and decided not to patent it. </p> | ||
<p>This first type of transistor is known as a Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), and required a DC bias arrangement to make it operate. This was an added complexity over equivalent [[Electron (or Vacuum) Tubes|vacuum tube]] circuits of that era. </p> | <p>This first type of transistor is known as a Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), and required a DC bias arrangement to make it operate. This was an added complexity over equivalent [[Electron (or Vacuum) Tubes|vacuum tube]] circuits of that era. </p> | ||
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== Development == | == Development == | ||
<p>The development of the transistor variants progressed broadly along two paths, noting that there is some overlap between the two groups | <p>The development of the transistor variants progressed broadly along two paths, noting that there is some overlap between the two groups: </p> | ||
=== Power Devices === | |||
<p>The types of transistor in this category were around applications for power circuits, motor controls, electrical distribution, heating and switching. They include: </p> | <p>The types of transistor in this category were around applications for power circuits, motor controls, electrical distribution, heating and switching. They include: </p> | ||
*IGFET, Insulated Gate FET | |||
*MOSFET, Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET | |||
*MESFET, Metal Semiconductor FET | |||
*TMOS | |||
=== High Frequency Devices === | |||
<p>The types of transistor in this category were around applications low noise receivers, high power RF tranmistters, Cellular Networks, Broadcasting. They include: </p> | <p>The types of transistor in this category were around applications low noise receivers, high power RF tranmistters, Cellular Networks, Broadcasting. They include: </p> | ||
*MOSFET, Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET | |||
*GaAs FET, Gallium Arsenide FET | |||
*JFET, Junction FET | |||
*LDMOS | |||
*HEMT, High Electron Mobility FET | |||
*HBT | |||
[[Category:Computing and electronics|Transistor]] [[Category:Solid state circuits|Transistor]] [[Category:Transistors|Transistor]] | |||
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|Date=1/26/1954 | |||
|Priority=Electrical | |||
|Description=On 26 January 1954 Morris Tanenbaum of Bell Labs, New Jersey, first achieved amplification in an NPN silicon transistor; this may have been the first silicon transistor ever fabricated, but Bell Labs kept the achievement secret and decided not to patent it. | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:37, 4 December 2019
Background
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld received a US patent 1745175 for what we now know as a MESFET in 1925.
On 26 January 1954 Morris Tanenbaum of Bell Labs first achieved amplification in an NPN silicon transistor; this may have been the first silicon transistor ever fabricated, but Bell Labs kept the achievement secret and decided not to patent it.
This first type of transistor is known as a Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), and required a DC bias arrangement to make it operate. This was an added complexity over equivalent vacuum tube circuits of that era.
Later the Field Effect Transistor (FET) was invented, which had almost the same DC circuit properties as a vacuum tube, and there were indeed some high voltage FET's produced as direct replacements for vacuum tubes (Triodes).
Development
The development of the transistor variants progressed broadly along two paths, noting that there is some overlap between the two groups:
Power Devices
The types of transistor in this category were around applications for power circuits, motor controls, electrical distribution, heating and switching. They include:
- IGFET, Insulated Gate FET
- MOSFET, Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET
- MESFET, Metal Semiconductor FET
- TMOS
High Frequency Devices
The types of transistor in this category were around applications low noise receivers, high power RF tranmistters, Cellular Networks, Broadcasting. They include:
- MOSFET, Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET
- GaAs FET, Gallium Arsenide FET
- JFET, Junction FET
- LDMOS
- HEMT, High Electron Mobility FET
- HBT
