Most of my work with common-base stages was using them as the output of a cascode with a common-emitter input stage. This let you eliminate most of the Miller capacity effect on the input, and go ...

The transistor can turn on or off if the base current turns on or off. If the base current varies, so does the output current, which is how a transistor functions as an amplifier.

Note that the difference in collector current to emitter current during this time period goes through the transistor base. The transistor remains on and the magnitude of the collector current is ...

OK, so I get a press release (pdf) from those wonderful folks at CamSemi, AKA Cambridge Semiconductor. It talks about their C2163 off-line switcher chip (pdf). The press release says: “…the BOM cost ...

I now get why they drove the transistor common-base. Yanking on the emitter reduces the Miller effect. It takes less gate drive to charge the gate of a LV FET with a Miller swing of maybe 10 V, ...

The transistor base (the "meat" of the sandwich) acts like the handle on a faucet. Turn it one way and current will gush through like water through a hose. Turn it the other and ...

Strategy Analytics: Base Station Power Amplifier Transistor Market Expected to Exceed $1 Billion in 2014. LDMOS Remains the Dominant Transistor Technology February 03, 2011 11:11 ...

Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by ...

John Bardeen, co-inventor of point-contact transistor and inventor of MOS transistor, may rightly be called father of modern electronics. vic kley April 4, 2017 02:59 pm ...

The transistor is expected to be useful not only in the fields of 5G communication base stations, weather radar, and satellite communications, but also in microwave heating and plasma processing.

A transistor is shown as a room in which “transistor man” stands watching a dial showing the base current, while adjusting a potentiometer that limits the collector current.