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metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor

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Also known as: MESFET

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    In semiconductor device: Metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors

    The metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) is a unipolar device, because its conduction process involves predominantly only one kind of carrier. The MESFET offers many attractive features for applications in both analog and digital circuits. It is particularly useful for microwave amplifications and…

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  • NMOS transistorNegative-channel metal-oxide semiconductors (NMOS) employ a positive secondary voltage to switch a shallow layer of p-type semiconductor material below the gate into n-type. For positive-channel metal-oxide semiconductors (PMOS), all these polarities are reversed. NMOS transistors are more expensive, but faster, than PMOS transistors.
    In transistor: Field-effect transistors

    …of unipolar transistor, called the metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET), is particularly well suited for microwave and other high-frequency applications because it can be manufactured from semiconductor materials with high electron mobilities that do not support an insulating oxide surface layer. These include compound semiconductors such as germanium-silicon and gallium arsenide.…

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