Transistor: ME 6405 Student Lecture
Transistor: ME 6405 Student Lecture
Transistor: ME 6405 Student Lecture
Transistor
Sung-bum Kang
Keun Jae Kim
Hongchul Sohn
Wenwei Xu
October 1, 2009
Georgia Institute of Technology
Contents
11 Introduction to Transistor
(Speaker: Sung-bum Kang)
44 Power Transistor
(Speaker: Wenwei Xu)
55 Applications of Transistor
(Speaker: Wenwei Xu)
“Transistor” Part 1
11 Introduction to Transistor
(Speaker: Sung-bum Kang)
44 Power Transistor
(Speaker: Wenwei Xu)
55 Applications of Transistor
(Speaker: Wenwei Xu)
Introduction
Amplifier: any device that changes, usually increases, the amplitude of a signal.
Electronic Switch: switch that the physical opening and closing is achieved by
applying appropriate electrical control signals.
Introduction
Early 20th century, vacuum tube was used for the amplifier and switch.
Invention
In 1947, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain,
and William Schockly, researchers at
Bell Lab, invented Transistor.
They found Transistor Effect: “when
electrical contacts were applied to a
crystal of germanium, the output power John Bardeen, Walter Brattain,
and William Schockly
was larger than the input.”
In 1956, they were awarded the Nobel
Prize in physics.
Transistor
is a semiconductor device commonly
used to amplify or switch electronic
signals. First model of Transistor, 1947
Introduction – Progress of Transistor
1954, Silicon TR
At TI Lab, Ease of processing, lower cost, greater power handling,
more stable temperature characteristics
Individual electronic
Now? components were soldered
on to printed circuit boards.
IC placed all
Sep 2009, 22nm silicon wafer components in one chip.
Semiconductor
is a basic building material of most integrated circuits.
is a material that has an electrical resistivity between that of a
conductor and an insulator.
has a few charge carriers(holes or free electrons) and may hence
be classified as almost insulator.
However, the conductivity increases by adding impurities(doping).
Doping
P(positive)-type doping is adding a certain type of atoms to the
semiconductor in order to increase holes.
P-type semiconductor, acceptor