MOSFET gate current... where does it go?


Consider an NMOS transistor which is turned off when there's 0 V on
the gate, and turned on when there's 5 V on the gate.

I've been told that a tiny bit of current flows into the gate of a
MOSFET transistor... well where does this current go? Does it come out
the drain, or the source, or does it split between the two?
.

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