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Electronics Comprises The Physics, Engineering, Technology and Applications That Deal With The

Electronics involves the control and manipulation of electrons using active devices like transistors and diodes. This field emerged with the invention of vacuum tubes that could amplify small signals, allowing electronics to process information and telecommunications. Key inventions like the transistor and MOSFET miniaturized components, driving the digital revolution. Today, most electronic devices use semiconductors to perform functions through circuits that process and transmit information and signals.

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Electronics Comprises The Physics, Engineering, Technology and Applications That Deal With The

Electronics involves the control and manipulation of electrons using active devices like transistors and diodes. This field emerged with the invention of vacuum tubes that could amplify small signals, allowing electronics to process information and telecommunications. Key inventions like the transistor and MOSFET miniaturized components, driving the digital revolution. Today, most electronic devices use semiconductors to perform functions through circuits that process and transmit information and signals.

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Electronics comprises the physics, engineering, technology and applications that deal with the

emission, flow and control of electrons in vacuum and matter.[1]


It uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification and rectification, which distinguishes it
from classical electrical engineering which uses passive effects such
as resistance, capacitance and inductance to control current flow. Electronics has had a major effect
on the development of modern society. The identification of the electron in 1897, along with the
subsequent invention of the vacuum tube which could amplify and rectify small electrical signals,
inaugurated the field of electronics and the electron age.[2] This distinction started around 1906 with
the invention by Lee De Forest of the triode, which made electrical amplification of weak radio
signals and audio signals possible with a non-mechanical device. Until 1950, this field was called
"radio technology" because its principal application was the design and theory of
radio transmitters, receivers, and vacuum tubes.
The term "solid-state electronics" emerged after the first working transistor was invented by William
Shockley, Walter Houser Brattain and John Bardeen at Bell Labs in 1947. The MOSFET (MOS
transistor) was later invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959. The
MOSFET was the first truly compact transistor that could be miniaturised and mass-produced for a
wide range of uses, revolutionizing the electronics industry, and playing a central role in
the microelectronics revolution and Digital Revolution. The MOSFET has since become the basic
element in most modern electronic equipment, and is the most widely used electronic device in the
world.
Electronics is widely used in information processing, telecommunication, and signal processing. The
ability of electronic devices to act as switches makes digital information-processing possible.
Interconnection technologies such as circuit boards, electronics packaging technology, and other
varied forms of communication infrastructure complete circuit functionality and transform the
mixed electronic components into a regular working system, called an electronic system; examples
are computers or control systems. An electronic system may be a component of another engineered
system or a standalone device. As of 2019 most electronic devices[3] use semiconductor components
to perform electron control. Commonly, electronic devices contain circuitry consisting of
active semiconductors supplemented with passive elements; such a circuit is described as
an electronic circuit. Electronics deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical
components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes, integrated circuits, optoelectronics,
and sensors, associated passive electrical components, and interconnection technologies.
The nonlinear behaviour of active components and their ability to control electron flows makes
amplification of weak signals possible.
The study of semiconductor devices and related technology is considered a branch of solid-state
physics, whereas the design and construction of electronic circuits to solve practical problems come
under electronics engineering. This article focuses on engineering aspects of electronics.

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