How to Use field-effect transistor in a Sentence

field-effect transistor

noun
  • Leading chip manufacturers are already shifting to nanosheet devices, which swap the fin in today’s fin field-effect transistors for a stack of horizontal sheets of semiconductor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The physical component responsible for this switching behavior is the transistor, most commonly a field-effect transistor.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Complementary field-effect transistors will stack nanosheet transistors atop each other, increasing density and temperature.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Imec Take, for instance, nanosheet transistors and complementary field-effect transistors (CFETs).
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The typical metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) forms the basic building block of most modern intergrated circuits.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated that field-effect transistors made from a single layer of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) can successfully drive resistive random access memory.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The transistor in today’s ubiquitous CMOS chips is the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor, or MOSFET.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2016
  • The potential for TFETs to replace the ubiquitous metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) has been appealing for more than a decade.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2016
  • Wide-band gap metal-oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs) have never been quite as popular as the ubiquitous metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET).
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2016
  • The transistors, silicon MOSFETs (metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors), contain an oxide layer that’s particularly vulnerable to radiation damage.
    — Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2026

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