El transistor es un dispositivo electrónico semiconductor utilizado para entregar una señal de salida en respuesta a una señal de entrada. Cumple funciones de amplificador, oscilador, conmutador o rectificador. El término «transistor» es la contracción en inglés de transfer resistor («resistor de transferencia»). Actualmente se encuentra prácticamente en todos los aparatos electrónicos de uso diario tales como radios, televisores, reproductores de audio y video, relojes de cuarzo, computadoras, lámparas fluorescentes, tomógrafos, teléfonos celulares, aunque casi siempre dentro de los llamados circuitos integrados.

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A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power. It is composed of semiconductor material usually with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals changes the current through another pair of terminals. Because the controlled (output) power can be higher than the controlling (input) power, a transistor can amplify a signal. Today, some transistors are packaged individually, but many more are found embedded in integrated circuits. The transistor is the fundamental building block of modern electronic devices, and is ubiquitous in modern electronic systems. First conceived by Julius Lilienfeld in 1926 and practically implemented in 1947 by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, the transistor revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things. The transistor is on the list of IEEE milestones in electronics, and Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievement.

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