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WHAT IS TRANSISTOR?
Field Effect Transistors are made up of 3 regions, a gate, a source, and a drain.
Different bipolar transistors, FETs are voltage-controlled devices. A voltage placed
at the gate controls current flow from the source to the drain of the transistor.
Field Effect transistors have a very high input impedance, from several mega
ohms (MΩ) of resistance to much, much larger values. This high input impedance
causes them to have very little current run through them. (According to ohm’s
law, current is inversely affected by the value of the impedance of the circuit. If
the impedance is high, the current is very low.) So FETs both draw very little
current from a circuit’s power source.