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Why are there more N type than P type MOSFETs?

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I was looking at different transistors, especially MOSFETS and I saw that N type MOSFETs seem to be way more popular to be used in circuit design. Is there a reason for that, or am I mistaken?

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Lundin‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

https://www.onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/AND9093-D.PDF, explains this better than I could. Basically N-channel have two advantages: it has lower Rds(on) and it often has a gate-source voltage that allows it to be driven with positive logic voltages directly from a MCU pin.