ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc. Chapter 13 Bipolar Junction Transistors
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc. Chapter 13 Bipolar Junction Transistors 1. Understand bipolar junction transistor operation in amplifier circuits. 2. Analyze simple amplifiers using the load- line technique and understand the causes of nonlinear distortion.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc. 3. Use large-signal equivalent circuits to analyze BJT circuits. 4. Analyze bias circuits. 5. Use small-signal equivalent circuits to analyze BJT amplifiers. 6. Compute performance of several important amplifier configurations. 7. Select an amplifier configuration appropriate for a given application.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc.
Equations of Operation
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COMMON-EMITTER CHARACTERISTICS
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc.
Common-emitter Input Characteristic
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc. Common-emitter Output Characteristics
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LOAD-LINE ANALYSIS OF A COMMON-EMITTER AMPLIFIER (Input Circuit)
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc. LOAD-LINE ANALYSIS OF A COMMON-EMITTER AMPLIFIER (Output Circuit)
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc.
When i C becomes zero, we say that the transistor is cutoff. When v CE 0.2 V, we say that the transistor is in saturation.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc. PNP BIPOLAR JUNCTION TRANSISTORS Except for reversal of current directions and voltage polarities, the pnp BJT is almost identical to the npn BJT.
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LARGE-SIGNAL DC CIRCUIT MODELS (Active-Region Model)
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc. LARGE-SIGNAL DC CIRCUIT MODELS (Saturation-Region Model)
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc. LARGE-SIGNAL DC CIRCUIT MODELS (Cutoff-Region Model)
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc. Analysis of the Fixed Base Bias Circuit
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc.
Analysis of the Four-Resistor Bias Circuit
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc.
i b (t) denotes the signal current flowing into the base, I BQ is the dc current that flows when the signal is absent, and i B (t) is the total base current. Similar notation is used for the other currents and voltages.
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Small-Signal Equivalent Circuit for the BJT
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COMMON-EMITTER AMPLIFIERS
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The common-emitter amplifier is inverting and has large voltage gain magnitude, large current gain, and large power gain.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc. EMITTER FOLLOWERS
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Output Impedance
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS, Third Edition, by Allan R. Hambley, ©2005 Pearson Education, Inc.
Even though the voltage gain of the emitter follower is less than unity, the current gain and power gain can be large.