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[White paper] B-TRAN – Bi-Directional Bi-Polar Junction TRANsistor

Semiconductor power switches are critical components in power conversion for a wide variety of high efficiency and clean energy applications including motor drives, electric vehicles, renewable energy generation, and energy storage. Improving the efficiency and performance of semiconductor power switch components can have wide benefits, improving the economics and accelerating deployment of these…

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Retrotechtacular: The Transistor (1953 Film)

If we cast our minds back to the early years of the transistor, the year that is always quoted is 1947, during which a Bell Labs team developed the first practical germanium point-contact transistor. They would go on to be granted the Nobel Prize for their work in 1956, but the universal adoption of their invention was not an instantaneous process. Instead there would be a gradual change from vacuum to solid state that would span the 1950s and the 1960s, and even in the 1970s you might still have found mainstream devices on sale containing vacuum tubes. To speed …read more http://pje.fyi/PGkqRJ