emitter region, (physical)

(1) A region from which charge carriers that will become minority carriers in the base are injected into the base. (Ref. 60 IRE 28.S1.)

(2) The physical region that is designed by the manufacturer to contain the supply region in the normal operating mode and, in a simple discrete transistor, is externally accessible by the designated emitter terminal.

References

JESD10, 9/81


JESD77-B, 2/00

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