MOSFET
Noun
Meaning
MOSFET (plural MOSFETs)
(electronics) Acronym of metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor.
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As devices are made smaller, the influence of the drain competes more successfully with that of the gate due to the growing proximity of these two electrodes, increasing the sensitivity of the MOSFET current to the drain voltage.
CMOS uses complementary (both n-channel and p-channel) MOSFET devices to achieve a high speed with low power dissipation.
CMOS circuits The MOSFET is used in digital complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor ( CMOS ) logic, citation which uses p- and n-channel MOSFETs as building blocks.
An insulated-gate field-effect transistor or IGFET is a related term almost synonymous with MOSFET.
As MOSFET size is reduced, the fields in the channel increase and the dopant impurity levels increase.
Circuit symbols A variety of symbols are used for the MOSFET.