ABCs of Electronics: An Easy Guide to Electronics Engineering

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7. Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs)

Farzin Asadi^{1, 2}  

(1)

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Maltepe University, Istanbul, Türkiye

(2)

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Beykent University, Istanbul, Türkiye

 

William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain invented the transistor in 1947. The term “transistor” is derived from the words “transfer” and “resistor.” These words describe the operation of a BJT which is the transfer of an input signal from a low resistance circuit to a high resistance circuit.

Transistors are one ...