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What is the difference between transistor and FET?

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An ordinary junction transistor consists of two junctions. In effect a variation of the base to emitter current influences the reverse leakage current at the base to collector junction. The base being common to both junctions.

A Field Effect Transistor uses an electric field to narrow the conductive channel thus varying its resistance. A FET has an extremely high input resistance compared with that of a standard junction transistor.

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What FET stand for?

FET stands for field-effect transistor.


Why the name is FET?

FET stands for Field Effect Transistor. The name FET comes because the gate current of a field effect transistor is zero and current present in the source conductor is due to an electric field produced by the substrate material placed between the gate and the source.


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What does the acronym FET stand for?

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What is CMOS FET transistor?

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Why do you bias a field effect transistor?

we do bias field effect transistor because FET works if its Q point lies into active reason .If we bias FET ,the Q point lies in active reason


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What is meaning of bfw11 in fet?

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Why Pmos transistor is usually larger than Nmos transistor in layout?

Due to differences in carrier mobility between P and N type semiconductor, for similarly doped channels the channel of a PMOS FET will be a bit wider than the channel of an NMOS FET so that they both have identical channel resistance. To make the channel wider the PMOS FET will take a larger chip area.