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Why doesn't a JFET cut-off when the voltage across drain-source is increased?

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Why doesn't a JFET cut-off when the voltage across drain-source is increased.. as in why does it only pinch-off..
 

JFET

The Jfet increases his field, that oposes the current, with the increase of voltage drain to source, but there is stilla chanel where the current cna flow. When both sides reach the other , that voltage that produces that is called pinch-off voltage.
 

JFET

In pinch off region, VDS increases the speed of carrier and they can pass through the edge of depletion region.
 

Re: JFET

The effect is similar to what happens when the channel in a MOSFET reaches its sat limit. Since the channel is completely strangulated anyone could think that the device reaches a kind of cut-off region, but since Vdrain is sitll higher than Vsource the electric field generated by this voltage sucks the minority carriers through the depletion region all the way from source to drain.
 

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