How did the original name for this device, the double base diode, change to the name unijunction transistor?
Thats an interesting story. For a while, we called the unijunction transistor a double base diode because thats the way it was discovered. We thought we had a tetrode, but in fact we had a diode with two ohmic contacts, and so it was a double base diode. That was descriptive term. But the diode terminology was a misnomer because it was a three terminal device, and not a two terminal device, and it had gain it was an active device and not a passive device like a diode. I think around 1956, I was on an IRE standards committee, or actually, on the IRE circuits committee 410, the transistor circuits subcommittee. And most of the people on that subcommittee objected to the terminology, and were trying to standardize terminology. We all knew that this thing was a transistor, and not a diode. So, with pressure from the IRE, I proposed that we call it a single junction transistor, which obviously then became a unijunction transistor, and it was a unijunction transistor but that was also descri
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