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DarlingtonCircuit102IEEETRANSACTIONSONCIRCUITSANDSYSTEMS―I:FUNDAMENTALTHEORYANDAPPLICATIONS,VOL.46,NO.1,JANUARY1999Darlington’sContributionstoTransistorCircuitDesignDavidA.Hodges,Fellow,IEEE(InvitedPaper)IDNEYDarlington’snameiswellknowntoelectroniccircuitdesigners.Heiscreditedwiththediscoveryandinitialdemonstrationintheearly1950’sofwhateversincehasbeenknownastheDarlingtontransistorpair,orsimplytheDarlingtontransistororDarlingtonpair.ThisepisodeprovidesanotherexampleofSidney’swide-rangingtechnicalinterestsandhiscreativityaddressedtothesolutionofrealengineeringproblems.Earlysilicontransistorssufferedfromlowvaluesofcommon-emittercurrentgain,andlargevariationsoffromsampletosample.mightrangefro……