When a positive voltage is applied to the base ... These circuits will allow you to observe the operation of a transistor as an amplifier, just as Walter Brattain did at Bell Labs in the winter ...

They were museum pieces by the early 1990s: a motorized roll of graph paper across which a pen would traverse in proportion to the voltage ... the germanium transistor AC amplifier was able ...

In order to develop the necessary technology, the project Magellan—High Efficiency mm-Wave GaN Transistor High Power ...

The first transistor was about half ... itself sat on a metal plate attached to a voltage source. This contraption was the very first semiconductor amplifier, because when a bit of current came ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Probably one of the most celebrated amplifiers ever made—the 33/ ...

The new Virtus S1S is a true masterpiece of the CANOR reference series. It impressively demonstrates CANOR’s ability to ...