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

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The Structure of the Moss Fet

The structure of the moss fet is. On the left, we've got a wire at the source that sticks into an endoped region. In between them is the well, and that is a region of the opposite doping. So it goes n, p, n, as the type of doping, going from left to right. Now above the well is that insulate origion, the silican dioxide. And above that, in turn, is the gait which is the conductor. Think of it as a metal, although, as i said, often it's not actually a metal. It's a poly crystalline silican. But that's not so ojust talk about it as

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