Name two elements that find wide application in transistor industry.

A. Silicon and Germanium

B. Carbon and Platinum

C. Iridium and Germanium

D. Tungsten and Platinum

Answer: Option A

Solution(By Examveda Team)

A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power. Semiconductor material (date first used): the metalloids germanium (1947) and silicon (1954) — in amorphous, polycrystalline and mono-crystalline form; the compounds gallium arsenide (1966) and silicon carbide (1997), the alloy silicon-germanium (1989), the allotrope of carbon graphene (research ongoing since 2004), etc.