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EE 331 Devices and Circuits I: Field-Effect Transistor

This document summarizes lecture 7 from the course EE 331 Devices and Circuits I. It discusses the linear region, or triode region, of a MOSFET transistor where the channel is just pinched off at the drain. In this region, there is a voltage across the inverted channel that causes electrons to drift down the channel and be injected into the depleted region between the channel and drain, where an electric field sweeps them to the drain. Once the channel reaches pinch-off, the voltage drop is constant across the inverted channel, causing the drain current to become constant.

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EE 331 Devices and Circuits I: Field-Effect Transistor

This document summarizes lecture 7 from the course EE 331 Devices and Circuits I. It discusses the linear region, or triode region, of a MOSFET transistor where the channel is just pinched off at the drain. In this region, there is a voltage across the inverted channel that causes electrons to drift down the channel and be injected into the depleted region between the channel and drain, where an electric field sweeps them to the drain. Once the channel reaches pinch-off, the voltage drop is constant across the inverted channel, causing the drain current to become constant.

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EE 331 Devices and circuits I

Field-Effect Transistor

Lecture 7
Linear region = Triode region
MOSFET with channel just
pinched off at the drain.
There is still a voltage equal to VGS- VTN across the inverted portion of the
channel, and electrons will be drifting down the channel from left to right.
electrons reach the pinch-off point are injected into the depleted
region between the end of the channel and the drain the electric
field in the depletion region then sweeps the electrons on to the drain
channel has reached pinch-off the voltage drop across the inverted
channel region is constant the drain current becomes constant
From the drain current equation:
READING: BIASING THE MOSFET

SECTION 4.11 IN TEXTBOOK

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