ELECTRONICS

ENGINEERING

Electronic Devices
and Circuits

Comprehensive Theory
with Solved Examples and Practice Questions

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 Electronic Devices and Circuits
CHAPTER 1 2.5 Different Types of Junctions.................................................69
2.6 Charge Storage and Diode Transients..............................69
Semicondcutor Physics..................................... 1-40 2.7 Reverse Bias-Breakdown........................................................71
1.1 Introduction................................................................................. 1
2.8 Some Special Diodes...............................................................75
1.2 The Nature of The Atom........................................................... 1
2.9 Metal-Semiconductor Junctions.........................................80
1.3 Atomic Energy Levels................................................................ 3
Objective Brain Teasers............................................................82
1.4 Electronic Structure of the Elements................................... 4
Conventional Brain Teasers.....................................................85
1.5 The Energy-Band Theory of Crystals.................................... 4
1.6 Insulators, Semiconductors and Metals............................. 6
CHAPTER 3
1.7 Electrons and Holes in an Intrinsic Semiconductor....... 7
1.8 Conductivity of a Semiconductor......................................... 9 Bipolar Junction Transistors....................... 89-110
1.9 Extrinsic Semiconductor: 3.1 Introduction...............................................................................89
Donor and Acceptor Impurities...........................................11 3.2 Transistor Action.......................................................................91
1.10 The Mass-Action Law..............................................................12 3.3 Base Width Modulation..........................................................95
1.11 Carrier Concentrations...........................................................14 3.4 BJT Configuration.....................................................................97
1.12 Charge Neutrality.....................................................................20 3.5 The Common Base Configuration......................................98
1.13 Drift of Carriers in Electric and Magnetic Fields............22 3.6 The Common-Emitter Configuration............................. 101
1.14 Diffusion of Carriers.................................................................28 3.7 The Common-Collector Configuration.......................... 105
1.15 The Continuity Equation........................................................30 Objective Brain Teasers......................................................... 106
1.16 Hall Effect.....................................................................................33 Conventional Brain Teasers.................................................. 108
Objective Brain Teasers............................................................34
Conventional Brain Teasers.....................................................37
CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 2 Field Effect Transistor (FET)......................111-145

4.1 Introduction............................................................................ 111
P-N Junction and Diodes.................................41-88 4.2 Construction of JFETs........................................................... 112
2.1 Basic Structure of the p-n Junction....................................41 4.3 Symbols..................................................................................... 113
2.2 Equilibrium Conditions..........................................................41 4.4 FET Operation......................................................................... 113
2.3 Forward and Reverse Biased 4.5 The Pinch-off Voltage Vp..................................................... 114
Junctions-Steady State Conditions....................................52
4.6 The JFET Volt-Ampere Characteristics............................ 114
2.4 Capacitive Effects in the p-n Junction..............................65

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4.7 The Transfer Characteristic................................................. 116 4.13 Functional Analysis of Enhancement MOSFET........... 131
4.8 Interpretation and Sketching 4.14 Depletion Type MOSFET..................................................... 135
of Transfer Characteristics Curve...................................... 116
Objective Brain Teasers......................................................... 139
4.9 FET Parameters....................................................................... 118
Conventional Brain Teasers.................................................. 141
4.10 MOSFET..................................................................................... 120
4.11 Enhancement Type MOSFET............................................. 124
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4.12 Derivation of the ID – VDS Relationship............................ 127

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