{"id":869,"date":"2010-08-23T08:24:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T13:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2010-08-23T08:24:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T13:24:41","slug":"what-is-a-mos-fet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/what-is-a-mos-fet\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a MOS-FET?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/mm5\/graphics\/00000001\/TO220b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mos-FET\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/mm5\/graphics\/00000001\/TO220b.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/MosFETS.html\">MOS-FET<\/a>, which is an abbreviation of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor, is a very important kind of transistor. Many IC&#8217;s are constructed of arrays of MOS-FETS on a tiny sliver of silicon.<\/p>\n<p>They are very small, easy to manufacture and many MOS-FETS consume a small amount of power making them an excellent choice for many applications.<\/p>\n<p>It is the most common type of transistor available for either digital or analog circuits, replacing the bipolar transistor which was much more common in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8216;metal&#8217; in the name is actually now a misnomer because what was originally the gate material (often Aluminum) is now more often a layer of polysilicon (aka polycrystalline silicon).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOS-FET, which is an abbreviation of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor, is a very important kind of transistor. Many IC&#8217;s are constructed of arrays of MOS-FETS on a tiny sliver of silicon. They are very small, easy to manufacture and many MOS-FETS consume a small amount of power making them an excellent choice for many applications. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,74],"tags":[13,184,18,9],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics-history","category-transistors","tag-electronic-components","tag-mos-fets","tag-transistor","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}