The trancitor as the combined word of a "transfer-

capacitor A capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy in an electric field by virtue of accumulating electric charges on two close surfaces insulated from each other. It is a passive electronic component with two terminals. The effect of ...

" is to be considered as another active-device category besides the

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as a "transfer-resistor". As observed in the table shown, four kinds of active devices are theoretically deduced. Among them, trancitors are missing to be the third and fourth kinds, whereas transistors, such as

bipolar junction transistor A bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor, such as a field-effect transistor, uses only one kind of charge carrier. A bipolar ...

(BJT) and

field-effect transistor The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the flow of current in a semiconductor. FETs (JFETs or MOSFETs) are devices with three terminals: ''source'', ''gate'', and ''drain''. FETs contro ...

(FET), were already invented as the first and second kinds, respectively. Unlike the transistor switching the current at its output (i.e., current source), the trancitor transfers its input to the voltage output (i.e., voltage source), so an inverse relationship with each other.

History

The term, ''Trancitor'', and its concept were first conceived by Sungsik Lee, a professor at the Department of Electronics Engineering,

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, South Korea, through his article, entitled ''A Missing Active Device — Trancitor for a New Paradigm of Electronics'', in

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uploaded on 30 April 2018, and published on 23 August 2018 in

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. And the supplementary video was also publicised. This story was first featured by the

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on 23 May 2018, entitled ''Another "Missing" Component could Revolutionize Electronics''. Since then, it has been distributed and discussed by many other internet media and communities.

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Professor Sungsik Lee's homepage
Electrical components Semiconductor devices Non-invented electrical components

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