Simple explanation of a Transistor?
There are two types of transistor, which are often called a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) or a field effect transistor (FET). Perhaps this Wikipedia article provides an answer to your question: – ‘… The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was the first type of transistor to be mass-produced. Bipolar transistors are so named because they conduct by using both majority and minority carriers. The three terminals of the BJT are named emitter, base and collector. Two p-n junctions exist inside a BJT: the base/emitter junction and base/collector junction. “The [BJT] is useful in amplifiers because the currents at the emitter and collector are controllable by the relatively small base current.” In an NPN transistor operating in the active region, the emitter-base junction is forward biased, and electrons are injected into the base region. Because the base is narrow, most of these electrons will diffuse into the reverse-biased base-collector junction and be swept into the collector; perhap
