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Episode 92: How Computers Work Part II - Silicon and Transistors

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An N Moss Fet Is a Transistor

The idea is that this structure that i described, the moss fet, is a transistor. Current will flow from the source to the drain but when the switch is on, it won't flow. When the switch is to turn the switch on or off, we just change the voltage on the gate and that changes the conductivity of the well region thereby turning on or off the switch. That's the basic idea. So it's a circuit waiting to happen. In an n moss, the source terminal, the two ends are also called terminals, because they form sort of the sides of a circuit, or potential circuit.

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