Describe briefly the forms of noise to which a transistor is prone. Solution The major sources of noise in transistors are: BJTs ----- shot noise, flicker noise, burst noise MOSFETs ----- flicker noise, thermal noise in strong inversion, shot noise in weak inversion, burst noise . Thermal noise is generated by the random thermal motion of charge carriers . Flicker noise , also known as 1/ f noise, is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum that falls off steadily into the higher frequencies, with a pink spectrum. It occurs in almost all electronic devices, and results from a variety of effects, though always related to a direct current. . Shot noise occurs due to various reasons - random emission of carriers across a barrier, random tunneling of carriers, generation/recombination processes in bulk and depletion region, thermal fluctuations triggering a relaxation current through diffusion. . Burst noise (or random telegraph signal) is seen as random .