Gujarat Technological University: Course Name: Electronic Devices and Circuits - I

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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

COURSE NAME : ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS - I

1. RATIONALE:
The aim of introducing this course is to impart knowledge of basic Electronics devices to the students of
Electronics Engineering. Through the study of this course the students will get, knowledge of
construction, working & characteristics of various types of diodes and transistors. The study of the devices
will be helpful to understand the various basic and applied technology courses.

2. SCHEME OF TEACHING
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Sr.No. Topics Th. Pra. Total
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1. Semiconductor physics and diodes 04 02 06
2. Diode applications and other 08 14 22
terminal devices.
3. Transistor 06 10 16
4. Transistor amplifier 06 06 12
5. Transistor biasing circuits 04 06 10
and thermal stability
6. Frequency response of small 06 04 10
signal transistor amplifier
7. Hybrid parameter. 04 04 08
8. Regulated Power Supply 04 10 14
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TOTAL 42 56 98
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3. TOPICS AND SUBTOPICS:

1. SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS AND DIODES:

1.1 Energy levels of conductors, semiconductors and insulators.


1.2 Extrinsic material N & P type.
1.3 Ideal diode basic construction & characteristics.
1.4 D.C. & A.C. resistance of diode.
1.5 Diode equivalent circuits.
1.6 Drift and diffusion currents.
1.7 Transition and diffusion capacitance.

2. DIODE APPLICATION AND OTHER TERMINAL DEVICES:

2.1 Series and parallel diode configuration with d.c. inputs.


2.2 The half-wave, full-wave and bridge rectifier and determination of PIV.
2.3 Determination of average d.c. current, voltage, ratio of rectification and ripple factor.
2.4 Disadvantage of half wave rectifier.
2.5 Requirement of filters.
2.6 Simple capacitor filter & induction filter.
2.7 Diode clamper and clipper.
2.8 Voltage doubler and multipliers.
2.9 Zener diode characteristics & operation.
2.10 Schottky barrier diode.

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2.11 Varactor/diode tunnel diode.
2.12 Photo diode , LDR, photo volatic cell, photo transistor.
2.13 Light emitting diode & Optocoupler, opto-isolator
2.14 Seven Segment display

3. TRANSISTOR :

3.1 Transistor construction (NPN silicon planner transistor)


3.2 Transistor operation and amplifying action.
3.3 Common base configuration.
3.4 Common emitter configuration.
3.5 Relation between current gain, alpha and beta.

4. TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIERS :

4.1 Principle of an amplifier.


4.2 Tr. common base amplifier working.
4.3 D.C. load line & operating point in CB amplifier.
4.4 Determination of Av, Ai, Ap, Ri, Ro in CB amplifier.
4.5 Tr. common emitter amplifier.
4.6 Load line consideration & operating point in CE Amplifier, Determination of Av, Ai, Ap, Ro, Ri
in CE amplifier.
4.7 Tr. common collector amplifier.
4.8 Comparison of CB, CE and CC amplifier.
4.9 Darlington pair

5. TRANSITOR BIASING CIRCUITS AND THERMAL STABILITY:

5.1 Transistor biasing circuits.


5.2 Reasons for thermal instability.
5.3 Stability factor.
5.4 Stability factor of a CE amplifier.
5.5 Collector to base biasing methods for stabilisation.
5.6 Emitter biasing methods for stabilisation and emitter bypass capacitor.
5.7 Potential divider method of biasing, Thermal resistance & requirements of heat sink.

6. FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF SMALL SIGNAL TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIER

6.1 Different methods of coupling in amplifier.


6.2 Circuits of R.C. coupled amplifier. using single stage (CE)
6.3 Two stage RC coupled amplifier.
6.4 Low frequency response of R-C coupled CE Amplifier.
6.5 Low frequency response and effect of coupling and emmiter bypass capacitor
6.6 Low frequency response to a pulse.
6.7 High frequency response to a pulse.
6.8 High frequency Model for CE Amplifier.

7. HYBRID PARAMETERS
7.1 Transistor Amplifier as a four terminal network (Black Box Concept)
7.2 Hybrid parameter & derivation
7.3 Hybrid parameters for transistor Amplifier
7.4 Transistor amp analysis using H-parameters

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8. REGULATED POWER SUPPLY
8.1 Simple series voltage regulators with over current and over voltage protection
8.2 Shunt regulator using transistor
8.3 SMPS (Switch mode power supply)
8.4 Three terminal voltage regulators like 7805, 7812, 7905 & 7912
8.5 Basic working principle and advantage of stabilizer & uninterrupted power supply (UPS)

4. LABORATORY EXPERIENCES:

1. To study the C.R.O.


2. To study function generator & T.P.S.U.
3. To study Multimeter.
4. Identification of components.
5. To study forward & reverse V-I characteristics of diode.
6. To study zener diode characteristic.
7. To study the characteristics of LED.
8. To study the characteristics of photodiode.
9. To test Half-wave rectifier.
10. To test full-wave rectifier with capacitor filter.
11. To test Bridge rectifier with choke filter.
12. To study the positive & negative clipping.
13. To study the positive & negative clamping.
14. To study the LDR characteristic.
15. To verify I/P & O/P characteristic of CB configuration.
16. To verify I/P & O/P characteristic of CE configuration.
17. To test CE amplifier & obtain the frequency response.
18. To test darlington pair.
19. To study colour coding of resistors, capacitors.
20. To Measure the load regulation and line regulation of Regulated Power Supply / SMPS
21. To study different types of capacitors.

5. REFERENCES:
1. Electronics Principles A.P.Malvino TMH
2. Electronic device & Circuits Allen Mottershead MGH
3. Electronic devices & Ckts.theory Robert Boylestand PHI
Louis Nashelsky
4. Electronic devices & Ckts. Millman-Halkias MGH
5. Electronic devices & Ckts. V. K. Mehta S.Chand
6. Integrated Electronics Millman & Halkias

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