I have attached some notes about bipolar junction NPN and PNP transistors.
Bipolar Junction NPN and PNP transistors
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So it turns out you can’t make a transistor from two diodes. :P
Wikipedia has an interesting article on Transistor count.
Here are two options for semiconductor analysis:
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