base region, functional

A control region through which the principal current passes and in which the concentration of principal-current charge carriers is the result of an applied base current.

NOTE 1 The principal current is the result of diffusion and impurity concentration gradient drift.

NOTE 2 This definition applies for the actual operating mode of the device regardless of the name of any associated terminal.

References

JESD77-B, 2/00

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