Nama: M YUSUF RIZALDY

NIM: 206060300111011
Mata Kuliah: English
Tugas: Writing 3 – HIGHLIGHTED

VERB = ORANYE
ADJECTIVE = HIJAU

TESTING METHOD OF TRANSISTOR

A transistor is a semiconductor device that allows electrical current or voltage through it to flow
under certain conditions, and acts as a switch or gate for electronic signals. Transistor consist of
three layers of a semiconductor material, each capable of carrying a current. Therefore, transistor
was made by two diodes that share a single junction.

An important application that transistor was used for is for the logic gate that was common in
digital systems. It is used to be said that the invention of transistor revolutionized the wider
electronics industry, including power electronics, consumer electronics, control systems, and
computers.

To test a transistor, we measured a diode junction with the multimeter leads situated one way and
then we flipped the leads of the multimeter to the reverse position, to switch polarity. One side of
the diode junction should read a very high resistance, above 1MΩ of resistance (the anode-to-
cathode side) and the other side should read a much lower resistance, maybe of a few hundred
thousand ohms (the cathode-to-anode side). This we did for each junction.

So in total we had six readings: emmiter to base, base to emitter, emitter to collector, collector to
emitter, collector to base, and base to collector. Each pair should have one side with very high
resistance (>1MΩ), and the other side with a much lower resistance of a few hundred thousand
ohms.

If this is the case for all the transistor leads, the transistor was good. If not, the transistor was
defective.