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Is it viable or possible to make your own transistor?

Just wondering if it is possible/viable to construct your own transistor, not small like todays, but the same scale as the one created at Bell Labs.
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How did the Bardeen-Brattain point-contact transistor work?

How did the Bardeen-Brattain point-contact transistor work? What are the conditions under which a Schottky barrier injects minority carriers? In a bipolar junction transistor the forward-biased ...
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How does current flow from the emitter, through the base and to the collector in a NPN transistor?

So, I understand that for a NPN transistor to work the emitter-base junction needs to be forward biased and the collector-base junction needs to be reverse biased. I understand how current flows from ...
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Why is spectral sensivity of a photodiode expressed in A/W

Can someone explain me the meaning of the A/W unit of the photosensivity when reading a spectral response function of the wavelength characteristic of a photodiode?
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How can a force be applied on hole? [duplicate]

What is actually a hole? Actually that is not a particle, but books are explaining that in semiconductors the polarity of Hall effect depends on the type of charge carriers whether it is p type or n ...
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PN Junction Depletion Region

So it took me a little bit to understand this, but I want to make sure I have a few things right. First of all, when a Crystal Structure with One side N-Doped, One Side P-Doped are in the same ...
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Explanation for transistor as amplifier

In transistor as an amplifier, we have NPN transistor (base in the middle and emitter and collector at the sides). The collector has electrons in majority because it is N-type. similarly, holes are in ...
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Resistance of Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)

Is there a mathematical expression relating the resistance of Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) with light intensity?
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Explanation of NMOS processes

So, gate (poly-si + $SiO_2$) and $p^{-}$ silicon operate as capacitator. But how are voltages and charges are applied? In order for inversion to occur, there should be charges formed in poly-Si, ...
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Capacitance per unit area and CMOS case

In a modern 0.35μm CMOS processor, the gate oxide thickness is around 80Å = 8nm. This gives us a capacitance per unit area of $430nF/cm^2$ I am not getting how one gets this capacitance per unit ...
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Current through the reverse biased junction in transistor

A transistor is a three terminal device. One terminal is called emitter, one collector and in between them is base. Now, during biasing the junction between emitter and base is made forward biased and ...
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Turn-on delay time for Laser diode

Do you know any simple explanation on the reason why the turn-on delay time on a laser diode is reducing while we increase the bias current? Turn on delay,is the time that the laser needs from the ...