jfet

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Junction Field Effect Transistor
JFET
Junction FET

   <electronics> (JFET, Junction FET) A {Field Effect Transistor}
   in which the conducting channel lies between pn junctions in
   the silicon material.  A pn junction acts as a {diode}, so it
   becomes conductive if the gate voltage gets reversed.

   (1997-02-24)