transistor
IPA: trænzˈɪstɝ
noun
- (semiconductors) A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.
- (dated, informal) A transistor radio.
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Examples of "transistor" in Sentences
- The bipolar transistor was invented in 1947.
- This is not the inventor of the transistor radio.
- The output is taken across the emitters of the transistors.
- In the discussion below, focus is on the NPN bipolar transistor.
- The first such improvement came with the advent of the transistor.
- The active device utilized in the oscillator is a bipolar transistor.
- In general, the higher the electron mobility the speedier the transistor.
- The transistor count of a device is the number of transistors in the device.
- The part about "once again" reinventing the transistor is a bit far-fetched.
- The base of the transistor is connected to the collector through the resistor.
- The transistor is indeed the tool we need to do the things that the future of our business requires.
- But the transistor is more than just a simplified, economical replacement for a larger piece of equipment.
- The photo-transistor is a member of the transistor family behaving like a photo-electric cell, or maybe to you, an electric eye.
- The leak-free transistor is made from a "nano-ribbon" of graphene less than 10 nanometres wide and just a single carbon atom thick (0.1 nm).
- Normal computers represent data as ones and zeroes, binary digits known as bits that are expressed by flicking switch like transistors on or off.
- Gordon Moore, co-founder of the company and father of the law that bears his name, called it the biggest change in transistor technology since the 1960s.
- As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it, and switch it on and off.
- If such a transistor is cooled to just above absolute zero, -273 degrees Celsius, and is exposed to a magnetic field a million times stronger than that of the earth, the remarkable phenomenon discovered by Störmer and Tsui sixteen years ago appears.
- Noyce came up with the two key inventions to make a practical integrated circuit: by leaving the oxide on, one could run interconnections as metal films over the top of its devices; and one could also put structures inside the silicon that isolated one transistor from the other.
- For example, if the engineers at Bell Laboratories had coined the word transistor and used it only in their original research reports, that would be interesting, but scarcely as important as the word's subsequent extraordinary frequency in the language, evidenced by its widespread use.
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