What is the breakdown voltage?

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What is the breakdown voltage?..

Answer / praveen

for example take a transistor it needs more 0.7v(for
germanium) to switch ON so this voltage is called break down
voltage.

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What is the breakdown voltage?..

Answer / madhu

it is not the voltage needed by the device, but it is the
voltage after which the device cant work.

we can say that as the voltage after which the device
efficiency decreases rapidly.

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What is the breakdown voltage?..

Answer / jessy

A level of voltage at which breakdown/malfunctioning takes
place in a device or anything to which it is applied.

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