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Transistor and their Characteristics –

Lesson-1 Junction Transistor

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1.1. Junction Transistor Junction Transistor Definition Definition

The transferred-resistance or transistoris a multi-junction device that is capable of• Current gain• Voltage gain• Signal-power gain

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Bipolar junction transistorBipolar junction transistorInvented in 1948 by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley

Contains three adjoining, alternately doped semiconductor regions: Emitter (E), Base (B), and Collector (C)

The middle region, base, is very thin compared to the diffusion length of minority carriers

Two kinds: npn and pnp

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Bipolar junction transistor – BJT Definition

The Bipolar junction transistor is an active device that works as a voltage-controlled current source and whose basic action is control of current at one terminal by controlling voltage applied at other two terminals.

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Bipolar Junction Transistor Representation

NPN PNP

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2.2. Transistor Current Transistor Current ComponentsComponents

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BJT circuit Current Components BJT circuit Current Components

As shown, the currents are positive quantities when the transistor is operated in forward active mode.

IE = IB + IC and VEB + VBC + VCE = 0 VCE = VEC

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Meaning of Forward biasingMeaning of Forward biasing

When the p side is applied +ve and n side negative in a junction and applied voltage is grater than a threshold 0.65 V for Silicon (Si)

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Meaning of Reverse biasingMeaning of Reverse biasing

When the p side is applied -ve and n side +ve in a junction and applied voltage is between 0 to a breakdown voltage

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3.3. Transistor as AmplifierTransistor as Amplifier

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BJT Common BJT Common Base Base

configurationconfiguration

BJT Common BJT Common EmitterEmitter

configurationconfiguration

BJT Common BJT Common Collector Collector

configurationconfiguration

PNPPNP PNP

IBIE IC

Three configurations

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Six Problems

• Draw circuits of CB, CE, CC configurations for npn and pnp transistors• Show current directions

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npn transistor in a simple circuit, known as‘common-emitter’ amplifier

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Characteristics ofCharacteristics of Transistor Amplifier in three Transistor Amplifier in three regions of operations regions of operations

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Input or driving Point Input or driving Point Characteristics of Common Characteristics of Common Base transistor AmplifierBase transistor Amplifier

Input or driving Point Characteristics of Common Emitter transistorAmplifier

Active region

Saturation region Saturation region

Active region

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Output Collector Output Collector Characteristics of Common Characteristics of Common Base transistor AmplifierBase transistor Amplifier

Output Collector Output Collector Characteristics of Common Characteristics of Common

Emitter transistorEmitter transistorAmplifierAmplifier

Saturation region Cut-off region Cut-off regionSaturation region

Active region Active region

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First Approximation Relationship First Approximation Relationship between between IICC and and IIEE

IC IE

BJT Common BJT Common Base Base

configurationconfiguration

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The collector current is being controlled by the B-E voltage, orthe current in the one part of the device is being controlled bythe voltage in another part - transistor action

Since the B-E junction is forward biased, holes from the baseare injected into the emitter. However, these injected holesdo not contribute to the collector current and are thereforenot part of the transistor action

To design a useful device, we need mathematical expressionsfor the minority carrier concentrations shown in the figureabove.

There are three modes of operation we must consider

• Forward-active (B-E FB, B-C RB)• Cut-off (B-E RB, B-C RB)• Saturation (B-E FB, B-C FB)

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BJT biasing modesBJT biasing modes

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In the cut-off region, the base emitter and collector base junctions of transistor are reverse biased IC IE 0

CutCut--off defined as region of characteristics Ioff defined as region of characteristics ICC = 0= 0

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Saturation- region – defined as region of characteristics left of VCB = 0 and IC increase

exponentially with VCB increases toward 0

In the saturation region region, the base emitter and collector base junctions of transistor are forward biased

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Active - region – defined as region of characteristics right of VCB = 0 and IC first increases exponentially with VCB increases toward 0.7 V in Si transistor and then becomes constant In the active region region, the base emitter and

collector base junctions of transistor are forward and reversed biased respectively IC IE ≠ 0 and is in mA IC

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Operation in the forward-activemode

B-E junction is forward biased so electronscan be injected from the emitter to the base, B-Cjunction is reverse biased.

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4.4. Transistor Transistor Construction Construction

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BJT structure - three regions, two p-n junctions, threeterminals (emitter, base, collector)

ThinThin

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Construction Construction Devices can be p-n-p, or n-p-n structures Width of the base is small compared to the

minority carrier length and is about 1/150 of total width, number of free carriers are small as doping level is 1/10 th or less compared to collector)

Emitter is normally heavily doped, the collector has light doping

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SummarySummary

We learnt (i) pnp transistor (ii) npn transistor (iii) Current Components (iv) Three configurations-

Common base, common emitter and Common collector

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We learnt (v) Three regions- cut-off,

saturation and active (vi) Transistor construction

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