Transistors

What is a transistor?

What are the basic constraints on transistor operation?

How can a transistor act as a switch?

What is meant by "common emitter"?

How can a transistor achieve voltage amplification?

What are the distinctive advantages of common emitter, collector, and base amplifiers?

*Junction Transistor

*Current Amplifier

*Constraints of Operation

*Transistor Switch

*Transistor Operation

*Transistor Amplifiers

*Common Emitter Amplifier

*Voltage Amplification

*Common Collector Amplifier

*Common Base Amplifier


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Amplifier Applications

How can a transistor current source supply a more constant output voltage than a voltage divider?

How can a transistor act as a switch?

*Transistor current source

*Transistor switch


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Transistor Amplifier Applications

What kind of transistor amplifier do you use if you want voltage amplification?

What steps are involved in designing a common emitter amplifier?

How is the common emitter amplifier behavior different if you use an emitter bypass resistor?

What happens to the common emitter amplifier outside its active region?

What kind of transistor amplifier do you use to achieve impedance matching to a low impedance load?

What steps are involved in designing a common collector amplifier?

How are the input and output impedances calculated for a common emitter amplifier? for common collector?

*Common Emitter Amplifier

*Voltage Gain for Common Emitter

*Common Emitter Design

*Use of the Current Gain b

*Common Emitter with Bypass

*Bypass Capacitor Details

*Common Collector Amplifier

*Common Collector Design

*Emitter Follower Details

*Common Emitter Impedances

*Common Collector Impedances


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