junction transistor
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a semiconductor device capable of amplification
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Shockley's theory of the junction transistor was an "impressive achievement", pointing the way to future solid-state electronics, but it would be several years before its construction would become practically possible.
The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) has traditionally been the analog designer's transistor of choice, due largely to its higher transconductance and its lower output impedance (drain-voltage independence) in the switching region.
Priority date October 22, 1925 Twenty five years later, when Bell Telephone attempted to patent the junction transistor, they found Lilienfeld already holding a patent, worded in a way that would include all types of transistors.
Shockley later suggested that the charge was compensated by electrons in the bulk and suggested the junction transistor geometry..
This structure went on to be used for the vast majority of all transistors into the 1960s, and evolved into the bipolar junction transistor.
Usage of bipolar and field-effect transistors The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was the most commonly used transistor in the 1960s and 70s.