Transistors and their Use in Linear Circuits
Graham Bishop · 1983
The transistor is the basic amplifying device incorporated in operational amplifier designs, in particular integrated circuits. External circuitry applied to an amplifier composed of one or more transistors can be made to transform the amplifier into a function generator, as seen in later chapters. This chapter describes the construction and operation of semiconductor devices and in particular the transistor in its many forms. The basic transistor amplifier is then constructed, this being a fundamental component of the more sophisticated operational amplifier.