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What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

Transistors are tiny electronic components that act as switches and amplifiers, and they dwell at the heart of modern technology. In simple terms, a transistor can turn a flow of electricity on or off ...
Electronic Design

76 Years of the Transistor: Then, Now, and What’s to Come

How the first transistor evolved to meet new and emerging application demands as underlying structures transform and multi-die systems gained further adoption. How transistors have enabled the ...
EDN

Making a Class AB output stage safer

A widely-used push-pull configuration of an AB class amplifier is shown in Figure 1, but it has some improvements. Figure 1 This configuration of an AB class amplifier has some improvements. First of ...
Electronic Design

Cascode Configuration Removes Miller Effect, Boosts PFC Performance

The power factor corrector (PFC) front end of an off-line power supply is subject to the operating frequency limitation caused by the Miller Effect of its associated power MOSFET. This effect is a ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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