Transistor Basics Quiz

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Who discovered the electron in 1898?

  • Thomson (correct)
  • Lee De Forest
  • Mervin Kelly
  • Julius Edgar Lilienfield

Which device was unreliable and consumed a lot of power according to the given text?

  • Point contact transistor
  • Triode in vacuum tube (correct)
  • Junction transistor
  • Transistor radio

Who proposed the basic principle behind the MOS field-effect transistor?

  • Mervin Kelly
  • Oskar Heil
  • Thomson
  • Julius Edgar Lilienfield (correct)

Who was the team leader of the solid state department at Bell Labs?

<p>Bill Shockley (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which company received a license from Bell Labs to build transistors?

<p>Sony (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what year did Sony receive a license from Bell Labs to build transistors?

<p>1950 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who founded Shockley Semiconductor?

<p>Bill Shockley (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which physicist patented the field effect transistor in 1934?

<p>Oskar Heil (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a transistor?

<p>An electronic device made of a semiconductor that can act as an insulator and a conductor (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which invention was probably the most important of the 20th Century, according to Ira Flatow?

<p>Transistor (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main function of a transistor?

<p>To switch or amplify signals (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which invention replaced vacuum tubes?

<p>Transistors (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who discovered Rectification crystals that can conduct current in only one direction under certain conditions?

<p>Ferdinand Braun (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did John Ambrose Fleming develop?

<p>Vacuum Tube (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of biasing in transistors?

<p>To set the operating point for amplifying the AC signal (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the function of a DC load line in a transistor circuit?

<p>It shows the range of operation between cut-off and saturation points (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In a transistor circuit, what is the significance of the quiescent point?

<p>It marks the operating point of the transistor without time varying sources (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the relation between input/output phase in Common Base transistor configuration?

<p>180° (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of transistor configuration exhibits high voltage gain?

<p>Common Emitter (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of DC biasing circuit uses a voltage divider?

<p>Voltage divider bias circuit (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the expression for base current in a fixed-bias circuit?

<p>$IB = \frac{V_{CC} - V_{BE}}{RB}$ (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What happens when a transistor is operating in saturation?

<p>Collector current is at its maximum value (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of transistor configuration exhibits low input impedance?

<p>Common Base (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In a fixed bias configuration, the Q-point is the operating point where:

<p>the value of IB sets the values of VCE and IC (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the emitter-stabilized bias circuit, adding a resistor (RE) to the emitter circuit stabilizes the bias circuit by:

<p>improving the stability of the transistor (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The collector-emitter loop in the improved biased stability circuit can be described by the equation:

<p>VCE = VCC – IC (RC + RE) (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The saturation level in a transistor can be determined from the endpoints of the load line where:

<p>IC = 0 mA and VCE = 0 V (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the voltage divider bias configuration, the currents and voltages are nearly independent of variations in b, which refers to:

<p>transistor gain (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The approximate analysis for the voltage divider bias configuration is valid when:

<p>$IB &lt;&lt; 10R_2$ (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In a DC bias with voltage feedback, adding a feedback path from collector to base improves the stability of the bias circuit by:

<p>making the Q-point independent of transistor beta, b (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The load line analysis for transistor saturation level determines the saturation endpoints as:

<p>$VCE = 0V$ and $IC = VCC / RC$ (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

"Circuit Values Affect the Q-Point more" implies that changes in circuit values like resistors have a greater impact on:

<p>$IC$ (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The base-emitter loop in the emitter-stabilized bias circuit can be described by the equation:

<p>$I_B = \frac{VCC - VBE}{RB + (b + 1)RE}$ (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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