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6.2 Depletion-type IGFETs
Insulated gate field-effect transistors are unipolar devices just like JFETs: that is, the controlled current does not have to cross a PN junction. There is a PN junction inside the transistor, but its only purpose is to provide that nonconducting depletion region which is used to restrict current through the channel. Schematic Symbol and Physical…
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6.1 Introduction to Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors
As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of field-effect transistor. The junction field-effect transistor, or JFET, uses voltage applied across a reverse-biased PN junction to control the width of that junction’s depletion region, which then controls the conductivity of a semiconductor channel through which the controlled current moves. Another…
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5.4 Active-mode Operation (JFET)
JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle” current in a mode between cutoff and saturation called the active mode. To better understand JFET operation, let’s set up a SPICE simulation similar to the one used to explore basic bipolar transistor function: Spice Simulation of a JFET Operation jfet simulation vin 0 1 dc 1…
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5.3 Meter Check of a Transistor (JFET)
Testing a JFET with a multimeter might seem to be a relatively easy task, seeing as how it has only one PN junction to test: either measured between gate and source, or between gate and drain. Testing Continuity of an N-channel JFET Testing continuity through the drain-source channel is another matter, though. Remember from the…