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Bipolar transistors, and particularly power transistors, have long base-storage times when they are driven into saturation; the base storage limits turn-off time in switching applications. A Baker clamp can prevent the transistor from heavily saturating, which reduces the amount of charge stored in the base and thus improves switching time.
An NPN grown-junction transistor with the cover removed to show the germanium ingot and the base wire. The grown-junction transistor was the first type of bipolar junction transistor made. [1] It was invented by William Shockley at Bell Labs on June 23, 1948 [2] (patent filed June 26, 1948), six months after the first bipolar point-contact ...
A heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is a type of bipolar junction transistor (BJT) that uses different semiconductor materials for the emitter and base regions, creating a heterojunction. The HBT improves on the BJT in that it can handle signals of very high frequencies, up to several hundred GHz .
The 2N3904 is a common NPN bipolar junction transistor used for general-purpose low-power amplifying or switching applications. [1] [2] [3] It is designed for low current and power, medium voltage, and can operate at moderately high speeds. It is complementary to the 2N3906 PNP transistor. Both types were registered by Motorola Semiconductor in ...
The IGBT accounts for 27% of the power transistor market, second only to the power MOSFET (53%), and ahead of the RF amplifier (11%) and bipolar junction transistor (9%). [35] The IGBT is widely used in consumer electronics , industrial technology , the energy sector , aerospace electronic devices, and transportation .
A diffused junction transistor is a transistor formed by diffusing dopants into a semiconductor substrate. The diffusion process was developed later than the alloy-junction and grown junction processes for making bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). Bell Labs developed the first prototype diffused junction bipolar transistors in 1954. [1]
Illustration of safe operating area of a bipolar power transistor. Any combination of collector current and voltage below the line can be tolerated by the transistor. SOA is usually presented in transistor datasheets as a graph with V CE (collector-emitter voltage) on the abscissa and I CE (collector-emitter current) on the ordinate ; the safe ...
Early, is the variation in the effective width of the base in a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) due to a variation in the applied base-to-collector voltage. A greater reverse bias across the collector–base junction, for example, increases the collector–base depletion width , thereby decreasing the width of the charge carrier portion of ...