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- From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
- Subject: Re: TP research
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:54:03 GMT
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- First there were bipolar transisitors, then there were JFETs,
- then PMOS transistors, then NMOS transistors, then CMOS transistors.
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- Only the first is controlled by a junction effect.
- All except the first are field effect transistors. Conductivity is
- controlled by the effect an electric field has on the charge carrier
- density in the channel. In PMOS and NMOS tranistors the channels are
- made of P-type and N-type silicon respectively. CMOS has both types of
- transistors. In the ?MOS transistors the gates are insulated by a
- metal oxide or some new improved insulator. In the JFETs the
- 'insulation' is an N-P junction. Both P-type and N-type channels are
- made. I don't know if chips with both kinds were ever made.
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- PMOS came before NMOS because impurities such as sodium screwed up
- the manufacturing process. To make matters worse an NMOS chip could
- seem all right for a while, but the electric fields in the chip would
- cause sodium migration to where it would do the most damage: the gate.
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- The moral of this story is that trolls should not put salt on their food.
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- Mike hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
- "I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up."
- Terry Pratchett
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