Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Study Finds Next-Generation Transistor Performance Inflated in Most Lab Testing

Duke engineers show how a common device architecture used to test 2D transistors overstates their performance prospects in real-world devices.
Electronic Design

Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. The spread of h FE values in a batch of transistors may be wide enough to cause unreliable performance during mass production of a ...
EDN

In Circuit Transistor Checker

This simple circuit has helped me out on many occasions. It is able to check transistors, in the circuit, down to 40 ohms across the collector-base or base-emitter junctions. It can also check the ...
Electronic Design

Connecting Transistors— and Measuring Their Performance

Transistors are a dime a dozen—or maybe a dime a billion. When it comes to designing a state-of-the-art mobile device or a high-performance server, it’s how you put the transistors together that ...