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Field Effect Transistors and their applications. Types of Field Effect Transistors. There are Junction FETs (JFET) and Insulated gate FETs (IGFET) There are many types of IGFET. Most common is the MOSFET: Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET. A silicon atom (Si). Has 4 outer electrons
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Types of Field Effect Transistors There are Junction FETs (JFET) andInsulated gate FETs (IGFET)There are many types of IGFET. Most common is the MOSFET: Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET.
A silicon atom (Si) Has 4 outer electrons The outer electron shell needs 8 to be “full” (standing wave pattern) Silicon will try to lend or borrow 4
An Arsenic atom (As) Has 5 outer electrons One surplus for fitting in to the lattice
A Gallium atom (Ga) Has 3 outer electrons One short for fitting in to the lattice
Gallium doping (group 3) – P type Holes are positive
What causes the depletion? • Electrons move from left to right to fill the + holes • Where electrons and holes combine the area is “depleted” of current carriers • This leaves the left (N Type) positive so eventually this prevents the depletion spreading any more. • Applying negative to N type replaces the depleted carriers and the current resumes (Forward biased diode) • Applying positive to the N type removes more electrons and increases the depletion. Almost no current flows. (Reverse biased diode)
The junction transistor Emitter (-) Collector (+) Electrons Base Electrons are negative (Original patent used point contact)
NPN Transistor circuits • Common base • Emitter follower (common collector) • Common emitter Collector Base Emitter
A Planar NPN junction transistor Collector Base Emitter
Types of Field Effect Transistors There are Junction FETs (JFET) andInsulated gate FETs (IGFET)There are many types of IGFET. Most common is the MOSFET: Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET.
Field Effect Transistors come in 4 forms N Channel (as an NPN transistor or Valve)P Channel (as a PNP transistor) N and P channel each come as:Enhancement mode (just IGFET)Depletion mode (IGFET or JFET)
Insulated Gate Field Effect TransistorN Channel Enhancement mode
Curve L = 10v gateMostly resistiveCurve A = 2.5v gateMostly constant current (pinchoff) BSS 145 N channel enhancement FET output curves L A
FETs in the SoftRock Receiver The I & Q generator uses 4 D type Flip Flops 74HC74 The dual I/Q Mixer uses an FST 3253 dual 4 way multiplexer switch These all use logic circuits built with FETs Lets look at basic logic
Logic circuits By combining together enough NAND gates you can build anything digital. So that includes computers. (However some other bits may make life easier) We will look at how to make the Flip Flops used in the I / Q generator another time. So lets look at a CMOS NAND gate. Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET (We will add an inverter to make an AND gate too)
An AND gate (NAND + Inverter) NAND AND A B
Simulated AND gate waveforms AND NAND B A
NAND gate IC Layout (From Wikimedia commons)