MOSFET is Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor.
IGFET Insulated Gate Field Effect Transistor.
But these expressions are practically synonyms.
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Field Effect Transistor
A: basically a silicon bar where the conduction is controlled by
a field since there is no connection to the gate the impedance is
very high
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Its a Transistor used in JFET (Junction Field Effect
Transistor)
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The transistor was created by researchers at the university of
Geneva.
"The first patent for a field-effect transistor principle was
filed in Canada... 1925. In 1934 German physicist Dr. Oskar Heil
patented another field-effect transistor."