Hackaday

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Reverse Biasing An NPN BJT

For the Component Abuse Challenge our hacker [Tim Williams] observes that N-P-N reads the same way forwards and backwards, so ...
Hackaday

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Ever-Versatile Transistor As A Temperature Sensor

One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...
IEEE

MOSFET-Based RF Switch With Active Biasing

Abstract: A biasing method for a stacked field-effect transistor (FET)-based radio-frequency (RF) switch is proposed. The advantage of the method over conventional passive resistive biasing is the ...
IEEE

A Broadband DC-Bias Included CSWPL Model for RF Power Transistors

Abstract: A new broadband DC-bias included model for radio frequency (RF) power transistors is presented in this paper. The proposed method utilizes the canonical section-wise piecewise linear (CSWPL) ...