{"id":3574,"date":"2024-10-08T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/the-transistor-that-changed-the-world-the-mosfet\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:20","slug":"the-transistor-that-changed-the-world-the-mosfet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/the-transistor-that-changed-the-world-the-mosfet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transistor that Changed the World &#8212; the MOSFET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k8cdByDa3oA?si=FV7Fvt6UeIIUyPUM?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Another great video from Asianometry. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>My only quibble is that it kind of left unclear the differences between JFETs and MOSFETs. After all, we still use both. Note our beloved J310 JFET. And the IRF510 is a MOSFET. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Google&#8217;s AI explains: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #001d35; font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">A JFET (Junction Field-Effect Transistor) and a MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor) are both types of field-effect transistors, but the key difference is that <mark class=\"QVRyCf\" style=\"border-radius: 4px; padding: 0px 2px;\">in a JFET, the channel conductivity is controlled by a reverse-biased PN junction, while in a MOSFET, it&#8217;s controlled by an electric field across an insulating layer between the gate and the channel<\/mark>, allowing for a much higher input impedance and greater design flexibility in MOSFETs; <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #001d35; font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">essentially, MOSFETs are considered a more advanced version of JFETs with superior performance in many applications like high-speed switching and integration into complex circuits.<span class=\"UV3uM\" style=\"text-wrap: nowrap;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great video from Asianometry. My only quibble is that it kind of left unclear the differences between JFETs and MOSFETs. After all, we still use both. Note our beloved J310 JFET. And the IRF510 is a MOSFET. Google&#8217;s AI explains: A JFET (Junction Field-Effect Transistor) and a MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor) are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/the-transistor-that-changed-the-world-the-mosfet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Transistor that Changed the World &#8212; the MOSFET&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,31,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-history","category-radio-history","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11193,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/11193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}