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This shot shows a wire bonder being used to attach a silicon chip to a printed circuit board. The wire bonder uses very thin gold thread to make a connection between metal pads on the the chip and the board. This shot was taken in a cleanroom environment.
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An Introduction to FETs

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September 9, 2026
Read more about the article Biasing JFETs to Achieve Zero Drift
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Biasing JFETs to Achieve Zero Drift

Table of Contents Introduction Analysis Conclusions Introduction For certain applications JFETs allow a simple means to achieve near-uniform performance over wide-ranging temperatures. The principle of temperature effect on a silicon…

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Read more about the article Discrete JFET vs JFET OP-Amp
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Discrete JFET vs JFET OP-Amp

A JFET, or Junction Field Effect Transistor, is a powerful engineering design solution almost always used in Passive Infrared (PIR) sensors, Electret condenser microphones, Oscilloscope probes, and low-noise operational amplifiers. The main…

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5 Applications of JFET Transistors

The Current Regulator Diode is a JFET with the Gate tied to the Source and operating in the saturation region of the characteristic curve as seen in Figure 1. Figure 1…

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