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What is the effect of emitter resistance in common emitter amplifier?

The gain of a common-emitter amplifier is collector resistor divided by emitter resistor, or hFe, whichever is less. Since hFe depends on temperature, designing the amplifier to be dependent on resistance ratio makes it more stable. As such, the emitter resistance serves to stabilize the amplifier.


What is reason of invertong output of common emitter amplifier?

The output of the common emitter amplifier is inverted because increasing the base-emitter current causes a proportional increase in collector-emitter current. That increase in collector-emitter current pulls the collector towards the emitter, so the voltage on the collector will go down when the biased base voltage goes up, and vice versa. This is the characteristic of the Class A Common Emitter amplifier. Responding to a request for more details... This is for the NPN transistor. It applies to the PNP transistor as well, but directionality of voltage and current increases is reversed in that case. Start with the base-emitter circuit. You have some kind of bias network holding the base at a certain voltage. That voltage represents a certain current, which goes through the base-emitter junction and emitter resistor, if there is one. Typically, you consider that the emitter voltage is less than the base voltage by the amount of one diode junction, or about 0.7 volts. If you were to increase the input voltage, you would cause a corresponding increase in base-emitter current. The transistor has gain, beta-dc or hFe, which is basically the ratio of collector-emitter current over base-emitter current, so the base-emitter current is controlling a larger collector-emitter current. Now, focus on the collector-emitter circuit. You have some kind of resistor in the collector, and you might have some kind of resistor in the emitter. (More on the emitter resistor later.) Think of this circuit as three resistors in series, the collector resistor, the equivalent resistance of the collector-emitter junctions, and the emitter resistor. This also represents a current, one that is being controlled by the base-emitter resistance. Note that the base-emitter current is being added to the collector-emitter current, so the emitter current, by Kirchoff's current law, is the sum of the base and collector currents. Since the gain is relatively high, however, the contribution from the base is generally negligible. (In high power transistor amplifiers, gain is usually low, so base current is not negligible, so we do take it into account.) The crucial factor here is that the collector current is proportional to the base current, in the ratio of beta-dc, or hFe. If, for instance, base current were increased by 1 ma, with an hFe of 200, then the collector current would increase by 200 ma. Well, sort of.... You have to consider the transistor's limits, and you have to consider whether or not you are opereating in linear mode. Limits are easy, just check the specs. Lets look at linear mode... If you attempt to pull more collector current than the collector-emitter circuit would allow, i.e. to make the equivalant collector-emitter resistance go to zero, then the transistor starts operating in saturated mode. In saturated mode, the transistor is acting as a switch, and it is distinctly non-linear. Even if not saturated, the transistor can be poorly linear when operating at the ends of the linear range. This is why any good design includes consideration of linear mode range. You want to operate in the center of the linear range, which simply means that we bias the base to cause the collector to be in the middle of its optimal range, giving maximum linearity. Summarizing so far, we have a transistor that is multiplying its base current by some factor, beta-dc or hFe, causing a proportional collector current. With this viewpoint, the amplifier is non-inverting because increasing base current causes collector current to increase. We call the circuit inverting, however, because we want to think of the collector voltage rather than the collector current. Remember that the transistor has an equivalent resistance. In particular, the collector-emitter resistance changes in response to stimuli on the base. In order for the collector current to increase, the equivalent resistance must decrease. Looking at the collector-emitter circuit, you have a voltage divider, collector resistance at the top, and the sum of equivalent collector-emitter resistance and the emitter resistance at the bottom. It is easy to see that, if the collector current increases, the collector voltage must decrease. That is why we call this an inverting amplifer. Back to the emitter resistor... When we say "common emitter", we mean that the emitter is common and we analyze everything else. You can design and operate this amplifer with no emitter resistor, and that would be a true common (or grounded) emitter configuration. Problem is the circuit will not be stable... First, gain varies amongst transistors, even amongst transistors of identical design. It is common to state that hFe ranges from 80 to 400, as an example. The circuit design must consider this variability. If you want predictable and stable gain, you must compensate for gain variation. You design the circuit for minimum hFe, but you look at what happens with maximum hFe. To make matters worse, the junction voltage at any particular current varies with temperature, sometimes substantially. This means that your beautifully designed circuit is unpredictable when it gets warm, and all circuits that manipulate power, even small amounts of power, get warm. Its all a matter of degree. There are many ways to compensate for gain variations. One of them is to use an emitter resistor. This effectively places a limit on gain by moving the primary factor for gain from the transistor to the circuit. The gain of a common emitter amplifier is hFe. When there is an emitter resistor, however, the gain is collector resistance divided by emitter resistance. If that ratio is less than hFe, then hFe variability will not affect gain.


What happens when collector and base of a transistor are short?

this transistor is common emitter configurated transistor nd if emmiter nd collector both terminals are reversed bias then no current will be flowing through th terminal...


For normal operation of an npn transistor the base must be ground true or false?

False. For normal operation, an NPN transistor will have the base be more positive than the emitter and less positive than the collector, with the collector more positive than the emitter. Whether the base is grounded or not depends on the chosen design configuration of the circuit.


What is the major difference an NPN transistor and a PNP transistor?

The NPN transistor has its conduction curve where the base is more positive than the emitter, while the collector is also more positive than the emitter. The PNP transistor is exactly opposite, with its conduction curve where the base is less positive than the emitter, while the collector is also less positive than the emitter.

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Why emitter bias is more stable than base bias?

Collector current and emitter current are related by Ic = α Ie with α ≈ 1, so increase in emitter current with temperature is opposed, and operating point is kept stable. Similarly, if the transistor is replaced by another, there may be a change in IC (corresponding to change in β-value, for example). By similar process as above, the change is negated and operating point kept stable


Why emitter follower is stable?

The emitter follower, or Class C amplifier, is stable because offset does not depend too much on temperature, nor is there a bias circuit that affects gain. The emitter voltage is about 0.7V less (NPN) or more (PNP) than the base. So long as the ratio of collector-emitter current over base-emitter current stays in the linear region and is less than the transistor's gain (hFe) the emitter will "follow" the base with the junction offset. There will be some drift with temperature, but the circuit will remain stable so long as temperature stays within the transistor's specifications. If you need a circuit that is even more stable, you drive the base with an op-amp that compensates for the error between emitter and the reference input. Many linear power supplies are built this way. This technique nulls out the small changes to offset caused by temperature.


What is the effect of emitter resistance in common emitter amplifier?

The gain of a common-emitter amplifier is collector resistor divided by emitter resistor, or hFe, whichever is less. Since hFe depends on temperature, designing the amplifier to be dependent on resistance ratio makes it more stable. As such, the emitter resistance serves to stabilize the amplifier.


Why emitter is heavily doped?

The very word emitter explains this. Emitter needs more carriers to get emitted by it. Hence doping has to be heavy.


How do NPN bipolar junction transistors turn on and off?

In order to bias a bipolar junction transistor on, you need to forward bias the base-emitter junction at the same time you forward bias the collector-emitter junction, and the ratio of collector current over base current must be somewhat less than hFe, the transistor's gain. This is known as saturated, or non-linear mode, operation. In practice, we drive the base much harder than the calculated required current, so as to minimize dependency on varying hFe's for various transistors.Turning the transistor off is a simple matter of eliminating the base current.In the case of the NPN transistor, the base and collector would need to be more positive than the emitter. In the case of the PNP, they would need to be more negative.


Should I choose an annuity fixed?

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How do you design active single transistor low pass filter?

Using an appropriate transistor, set up the base bias in the normal fashion, same for the emitter resistor.You then need RC feedback emitter to base. This will take the form of a t filter: base input>c1>r1(to emitter)>c2(to base)C2 = 2×C1R1=R2×R3/(R1+R2)Fo=1.414/(4π×R1×C2)See external link for more.


What are the advantages of self bias on other bias?

1. stability factor s for voltage divider or self bias is less as compared to other biasing circuits . So this circuit is more stable and hence it is most commonly used. 2. this circuit is used where only moderate changes in ambient temperature are expected 3. the bias automatically adjusts to any variations in the circuit. by prerita agarwal


Why positron emitter is more than beta emitter in medium nuclie?

Because there is more energy available, and beta+ decay requires an energy contribution, as opposed to beta-.


IS there an emitter in the univeres?

There are many emitters in the universe. For example, the Sun is an emitter of electromagnetic waves and certain types of particles. It would help if you were more specific.


What is the plural of bias?

The plural of the noun bias would be biases. (or more rarely biasses)


What are advantages of voltage divider bias over the other types of biasing ci?

You can use more than one type of voltage divider in it. It can sometimes get mixed signals with all the things going on.