Spacistor

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-005493",
  "term": "Spacistor",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A type of multi-terminal solid-state semiconductor device developed in the 1950s, designed to operate at higher frequencies than the transistors of that era. Its operation was based on injecting minority carriers into a space-charge region of a reverse-biased junction, where a strong electric field would rapidly sweep them to a collector contact. The device offered potential for gigahertz-range operation but was difficult to manufacture and was ultimately superseded by improvements in bipolar junction and field-effect transistor technology.",
  "subject": "Industrial electronics",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Spacistor",
    "es": "spacistor",
    "fr": "spacistor"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/spacistor/"
}