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| The field-effect transistor (FET) controls the current between two
points but does so differently than the bipolar transistor. The FET
operates by the effects of an electric field on the flow of electrons
througv a single type of semiconductor material. This is why the FET
is sometimes called a unipolar transistor. Also, unlike bipolar
semiconductors that can be arranged in many configurations to provide
diodes, transistors, photoelectric devices. temperature sensitive devices
and so on, the field effect is usually only used to make transistors,
although FETs are also available as special-purpose diodes, for use as
constant current sources. Current moves within the FET in a channel, from the source connection to the drain connection. A gate terminal generates an electric field that controls the current (see Fig 8.25). The channel is made of either N-type or P-type semiconductor material; an FET is specified as either an N-channel or P-channel device. Majority carriers flow from source to drain. In N-channel devices, electrons flow so the drain potential must be higher than that of the Source (VDS > O)- In P-channel devices, the flow of holes requires that VDS < 0. The polarity of the electric field that controls current in the channel is determined by the majority carriers of the channel, ordinarily positive for P-channel FETs and negative for N-channel FETS. Variations of FET technology are based on different ways of generating the electric field. In all of these, however, electrons at the gate are used only for their charge in order to create an electric field around the channel, and there is a minimal flow of electrons through the gate. This leads to a very high de input resistance in devices that use FETs for their input circuitry. There may be quite a bit of capa,itance between the gate and the other FET terminals, however. The input impedance may be quite low at RF. The current through an FET only has to pass through a single type of semiconductor material. There is very little resistance in the absence of an electric field (no bias voltage). The drain-source resistance (rDS ON) is between a few hundred ohms to less than an ohm. The output impedance of devices made with FETs is generally quite low. If a gate bias voltage is added to operate the transistor near cut off, the circuit output impedance may be much higher. FET devices are constructed on a,Fubstrate of dqped semiconductor material. Thechannel isformed withinthe substrate and has the opposite polarity (a P-channet FET has N-type substrate). Most FETS are constructed with silicon. In order to achieve a higher gain-bandwidth product, other materials have been used. Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) has electron mobility and drift velocities that are far higher than the standard doped silicon, Amplifiers designed with GaAs FET devices have much higher frequency response and lower noise factor at VHF and UHF than those made with standard FETS. |
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There are two basic types of FET. In the junction FET (JFET), the gate material is made of the oppositepolarity semiconductor to the channel material (for a P-channel FET the gate is made of N-type semiconductor material). The gate-channel junction is similar to a diode's PN junction. As with the diode, current is high if the junction is forward biased and is extremely small when the junction is reverse biased. The latter case is the way that JFETs are used, since any current in the gate is undesirable. The magnitude of the reverse bias at the junction is proportional to the size of the electric field that 11 pinches" the channel. Thus, the current in the channel is reduced for higher reverse gate nias voltage. Because the gate-channel junction in a JFET is similar to a bipolar junction diode, this junction must never be forward biased, otherwise large currents will ass p through the gate and into the channel. For an N-channel JFET, the
gate must always be at a lower potential than the source (Vcs <
0). The channel is as fully open as it can get when the gate and
source voltages are equal (VGS = 0). The prohibited condition is
when VGS > 0. For P-channel JFETs these conditions are reversed (in
normal operation VGS 0 and the prohibited condition is when VGS < 0).
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Because of the insulating layer next to the gate, input resistance of a
MOSFET is usually greater than 1012 Ohms (a million
megohms). Since MOSFETs can both deplete the channel, like the JFET,
and also enhance it, the construction of MOSFET devices differs based on
the channel size in the resting state, VGS = 0. A
depletion mode, device (also called a normally on MOSFET)
has a channel in resting state that gets smaller as a reverse bias s
applied, this device conducts current with no bias applied (see Fig
). An enhancement mode device (also called a normally off
MOSFET) is built without a channel and does not conduct current when
VGS = 0; increasing forward bias forms a channel that
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| DATA SHEETS in .pdf: IRLZ44 N Channel MOSFET IRL3705 N Channel MOSFET DS0026 Driver |
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