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Title: Basic Electronics
Author: N. S. Smith, Jr.
Source: 1966 Appalachian Gas Measurement Short Course
Year Published: 1966
Abstract: Since their advent in 1948, semiconductor devices have been continually claiming a larger share of the territory which previously had been the exclusive domain of the vacuum tube. Initially, the application of semiconductor devices was limited to the use of diodes in low-voltage applications and transistors in lowvoltage and audio-frequency applications. As the theory and fabrication techniques were developed to overcome the voltage and frequency problems, the inherent advantages of small size, no heating power or warm-up time, and ruggedness, despite disadvantages sucii as sensitivity to radiation and temperature, led circuit designers to incorporate semiconductor diodes, transistors, and other semiconductor devices into electronic measuring equipment. It is evident that those involved in the application, maintenance, or servicing of such equipment should possess a knowledge of the principles of operation of such semiconductor devices as well as the more familiar vacuum-tube. The treatment of semiconductor diodes and transistors as analogs of their vacuum-tube equivalents will be the subject of the following discussion.

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