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Small transistor sharpens low-cost thermal cameras without extreme cooling

With help from a small transistor, a team of researchers led by Professor Fengnian Xia figured out a way to make a type of ...
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Scientists unlock 15-fold increase in thermal sensor sensitivity with tiny transistor

Thermal cameras help us “see” heat instead of visible light. They are used in many everyday technologies, from firefighters ...
Hackaday

NPN transistors

[Dr. Cockroach]’s goal was to build a four-bit computer out of recycled and repurposed junk. The resulting computer, called IO, consists of a single 555, around 230 PNP and NPN transistors, 230 diodes ...
EDN

Rad-Hard UHF NPN/PNP Transistor Array

The ISL73096EH is a radiation hardened ultra high frequency NPN/PNP transistor array. It contains three NPN transistors and two PNP transistors on a common substrate. The device covers all of the ...
Hackaday

All About PNP Transistors

In the early days, PNP bipolar transistors were common, but the bulk of circuits you see today use NPN transistors. As [Aaron Danner] points out, many people think PNP transistors are “backward” but ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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