S.D.M.

Jainmatt Trust®
A.G.M RURAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, VARUR,
HUBLI
DEPARTMENTOFELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

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Subject with code:Electronic Principles and Circuits (BEC303)

Module 5

Prepared By

Prof. ASIF IQBAL MULLA

Department of Electronics and Communication

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Syllabus :
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Power Amplifiers: Amplifier terms, Two load lines, Class A Operation, Class B operation, Class
B push pull emitter follower, Class C Operation.

Thyristors: The four layer Diode, SCR, SCR Phase control, Bidirectional Thyristors, IGBTs,
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Other Thyristors.
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 Amplifier Terms

Classes of operation

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Types of Coupling
Range of frequency

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Signal Levels
 Two load lines
DC load line

AC load line

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 Class A Operation

Power gain of Class A amplifier

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Output power of class A amplifier

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Transistor power dissipation

Drain current

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Efficiency of Class A amplifier
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Emitter follower power amplifier

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Class B Operation
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Class B Push Pull amplifier

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Advantages of Class B push pull amplifier

Disadvantages of Class B push pull amplifier

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Class B push pull emitter follower

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DC load line

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AC load line
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Class C Operation
Load line of class C amplifier

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 Thyristors

The four layer diode

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Positive feedback
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Closing latch

The Shockley diode

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Breakover characteristics
 The silicon controlled rectifier(SCR)

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The SCR phase control

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Bidirectional Thyristors

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Diac
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Traic
 IGBTs(Insulated gate bipolar transistor)
Basic Construction

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IGBT Control
 Other Thyristors
Photo SCR

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Gate Controlled Switch

Silicon Controlled Switch

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Unijunction transistor
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Programmable unijunction transistor (PUT)
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