History of The JFET
The JFET was predicted by Julius Lilienfeld in 1925 and by the mid-1930s its theory of operation was sufficiently well known to justify a patent. However, it was not possible for many years to make doped crystals with enough precision to show the effect. In 1947, researchers John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Shockley were trying to make a JFET when they discovered the point-contact transistor. The first practical JFETs were made many years later, in spite of their conception long before the junction transistor. To some extent it can be treated as a hybrid of a MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) and a BJT though an IGBT resembles more of the hybrid features.
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