Homemade transistor demonstration

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May 13th, 2010

Here’s a follow-up video to Jeri’s earlier run through of her fabrication of an NMOS (N-channel) transistor. Here, she demonstrates some of the electrical characteristics of a P-channel transistor she fabricated in her home chip lab. Surface-mount it ain’t, but hey, homemade!

Homemade Transistor Demonstration

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