Understandable Electronic Devices: Key concepts and circuit design

✍ Scribed by Meizhong Wang

• Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Series: IET Materials Circuits and Devices Series, 75
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An electronic device is a physical component of an electronic circuit or system, which is used to affect electrons and their associated fields in accordance with the function of that system. Such systems have a very broad range of applications, the main ones being, Industrial automation and motion control, information processing, telecommunication, and signal processing.

Understandable Electronic Devices: Key concepts and circuit design provides a concise, easily understandable and convenient guide to electronics circuits. Coverage includes diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field effect transistors, amplifiers, oscillators, and voltage regulators. Each chapter includes worked examples of theorems, and clear summaries of procedures, methods and equations.

Reviewing key concepts in modern electronics, this book is a valuable resource for anyone needing an overview of the principles of electronic devices and circuits, or to review or update their knowledge in this field. Written by a highly experienced instructor in the field, the book provides early-career professionals and college and university students with the necessary foundation in electronics. The book is also a useful resource for researchers and research professionals whose main field is not electronics but whose research requires a working knowledge of electronic circuits and devices.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgment
About the author
Introduction
Chapter 1 Basic semiconductor theory
1.1 Fundamental semiconductor theory
1.1.1 Basic atomic theory
1.1.2 N-type and P-type semiconductors
1.1.3 Depletion layer
1.2 Bias
1.2.1 Forward and reverse bias
1.2.2 Reverse breakdown
1.2.3 I-V characteristic curve of a P-N junction
1.3 Diodes
1.3.1 Introduction to diodes
1.3.2 Ideal diodes
1.3.3 Real (practical) diodes
Summary
Self-test
Chapter 2 Types of diodes and their applications
2.1 Zener diode and its applications
2.1.1 Diodes classification
2.1.2 Zener diodes
2.1.3 Zener diode as a voltage shifter and a clipper
2.1.4 Zener diode as a voltage regulator
2.2 Special types of diodes
2.2.1 Varicap diode
2.2.2 Light-emitting diode (LED)
2.2.3 Photodiode
2.2.4 Schottky diode
Summary
Self-test
Chapter 3 Diode applications - power supplies, clippers, and clampers
3.1 Half-wave rectifiers
3.1.1 Introduction to DC power supply
3.1.2 Transformer
3.1.3 Half-wave rectifier
3.2 Full-wave rectifier
3.2.1 Center tapped full-wave rectifier
3.2.2 Full-wave bridge rectifier
3.3 Power supply filters
3.3.1 Capacitor filter
3.3.2 Operation of the capacitor filter
2.2.3 Ripple factor and surge current
3.4 Diode clipping and clamping circuits
3.4.1 Clippers
3.4.2 Clampers
Summary
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Chapter 4 Bipolar junction transistors
4.1 Introduction to bipolar junction transistor
4.1.1 Bipolar junction transistor (BJT)
4.1.2 Transistor parameters
4.2 DC analysis of a BJT circuits
4.2.1 DC analysis
4.2.2 BJT characteristic curves
4.2.3 Distinct regions of collector curves
4.3 Transistors act as amplifiers and switches
4.3.1 Transistor as an amplifier
4.3.2 Transistor switching circuit
Summary
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Chapter 5 DC biasing of BJTs
5.1 Introduction to DC biasing
5.1.1 DC load line and operation point
5.1.2 Mid-point biasing and active (linear) operation
5.1.3 Bipolar junction transistor (BJT) biasing and stability
5.2 Methods of BJT biasing
5.2.1 Base bias
5.2.2 Voltage-divider bias
5.2.3 Emitter bias
5.2.4 Collector-feedback bias
Summary
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Chapter 6 AC analysis of BJT circuits – BJT amplifier
6.1 Transistor amplifiers
6.1.1 Capacitors in transistor amplifier
6.1.2 Superposition of DC and AC
6.1.3 Transistor r-parameters equivalent model
6.1.4 Transistor h-parameters equivalent model
6.1.5 h-parameters for three configurations of the transistors
6.2 Transistor small-signal analysis
6.2.1 Transistor common-emitter amplifier
6.2.2 Transistor common-collector amplifier
6.2.3 Transistor common-base amplifier
6.2.4 Multistage transistor amplifiers
Summary
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Chapter 7 Field-effect transistors
7.1 Field-Effect Transistors
7.1.1 Introduction to field-effect transistors (FETs)
7.1.2 JFET – operation and characteristics
7.2 Biasing of JFET
7.2.1 JFET gate bias (or fixed bias)
7.2.2 JFET self-bias
7.2.3 JFET voltage divider-bias
7.3 MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor)
7.3.1 Introduction to MOSFET
7.3.2 MOSFET transfer characteristics
7.3.3 E-MOSFET biasing
7.3.4 D-MOSFET biasing
Summary
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Chapter 8 AC analysis of FET circuits – FET amplifier
8.1 JFET equivalent model
8.1.1 Introduction to FET amplifier
8.1.2 JFET AC equivalent circuit
8.2 JFET amplifier analysis
8.2.1 Common-drain amplifier analysis
8.2.2 Common-source amplifier analysis
8.2.3 Common-gate amplifier analysis
Summary
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Chapter 9 Operational amplifiers
9.1 Operational amplifiers (op-amps)
9.1.1 Introduction to op-amps
9.1.2 Op-amp modes of operation
9.2 Basic building blocks of an op-amp
9.2.1 Inverting op-amp
9.2.2 Noninverting op-amp
9.2.3 Voltage follower op-amp
9.2.4 Terminologies of op-amps
9.3 Basic op-amp circuits
9.3.1 Summing amplifier
9.3.2 Difference amplifier
9.3.3 Op-amp differentiator
9.3.4 Op-amp integrator
9.3.5 Op-amp comparator
Summary
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Chapter 10 Oscillators
10.1 Introduction to oscillators
10.1.1 Types of oscillators
10.1.2 Feedback and LC oscillators
10.2 LC oscillators
10.2.1 Armstrong oscillator
10.2.2 Colpitts oscillator
10.2.3 Hartley oscillator
10.2.4 Cristal-controlled oscillator
10.3 RC oscillators
Summary
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Chapter 11 Voltage Regulators
11.1 Introduction to op-amp voltage regulators
11.1.1 Voltage regulators concepts review
11.1.2 Classification of op-amp voltage regulators
11.2 Linear op-amp voltage regulators
11.2.1 Series voltage regulators
11.2.2 Shunt voltage regulators
11.3 Switching voltage regulators
11.3.1 Step-down regulator
11.3.2 Step-up regulator
11.3.3 Inverting voltage regulator
Summary
Self-test
Appendices
Future trends and wrap up
Answers to self-test questions
Index
Index