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p-channel depletion mosfets

There don't seem to be any. Pity.

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John Larkin
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At least there are p-channel JFET such as the MMBFJ175:

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Central Semi also makes it. Here is a modern one:

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Joerg

They're equivalent to NFETs for two-terminal use, of course. I'm not instantly thinking of a common three-terminal use for one, but I'm probably just dull this afternoon.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Phil Hobbs

P.S.: There was the FJ3P02100L, a bigger p-channel depletion mode MOSFET from Panasonic but AFAIK it has been discontinued.

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I guess there just isn't a sufficient market for that kind of FET.

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Joerg

Are they physical possible?

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Uwe Bonnes

Whoops, wrong FET. Can't find it anymore.

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Joerg

It seems so:

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Didn't NMOS logic use p-channel depletion mode?

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Joerg

I'm sure they are; this one (zero-threshold) comes close.

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but it's a very low-current solution.

P-doped material in Si has lower conductivity (lower carrier mobility) so there's not a lot of interest in discrete PMOS power devices. If my old handbook isn't wrong, AlSb has higher hole mobility than electron mobility... but no burgeoning technology around that semiconductor.

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Lasse Langwadt Christensen

Joerg snipped-for-privacy@analogconsultants.com wrote: ...

No, NMOS logic use n-channel depletion mode!

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Uwe Bonnes

I think the MC6800 and maybe 6802, pretty cool uPs in their day, used what was basically nmos RTL with depletion load pullups. The 6800 needed a weird 2-phase clock at 1 MHz.

I wrote an RTOS for the 6800, which was tricky because it couldn't push the index register onto the stack. And had no hardware multiply.

(I wrote it in ink on paper and mailed it a sheet at a time while visiting a friend in Juneau Alaska. People at work typed it on punchcards and assembled it and ran it. They claim that it had one bug.)

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John Larkin

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