Perfboard is designed for through-hole parts, but ever more frequently, the parts we need are only available as surface mount devices ... bend the middle pin of a transistor and put it in a ...

There’s no denying how useful surface mount technology is, and how enabling the ability to make really small circuits has become. It comes at a price, though; most of us probably know what it ...

In the beginning, there was the point-contact transistor. This was the very first transistor ever made, built by Walter Brattain with the help of John Bardeen. It was made of two gold foil ...

The first transistor was about half an inch high ... so that the contacts lightly touched the surface. The germanium itself sat on a metal plate attached to a voltage source.

After nearly a decade and five major nodes, along with a slew of half-nodes, the semiconductor manufacturing industry will begin transitioning from finFETs to gate-all-around stacked nanosheet ...

Transistor outline packages include: TO-92, a single in-line package often used for low power devices TO-220, which is suitable for high power, medium current, and fast-switching power devices. TO-263 ...

Case style- Transistors can be designed based on a wide variety of case styles. TOxx case codes describe leaded devices and SOTxxx case codes describe surface mounted devices. Material - Transistors ...

If the cable is too short to reach a surface box with at least six inches ... and add a set screw connector. Mount the box to ...

The first transistor ever assembled. It was called a point contact transistor because amplification occurred when two pointed metal contacts were pressed onto the surface of the semi-conductor ...

The particular manufacturing method used to make silicon chips, which is measured by the size of the transistor's elements. The driving force behind the design of integrated circuits is ...

Boards can be made faster because surface mount technology (SMT) eliminates drilling holes for thru-hole devices, in which the pins go through the board and are soldered underneath. THIS ...