Course Detail
Electronics-1 EEE-231
COURSE INFORMATION
Brief Instructor’s Detail/Biography
Instructor: Dr. Aadil Raza, Assistant Professor
Office: Department of Physics, COMSATS University Islamabad.
Email: aadilraza@[Link]
Mobile: 03425148457
Biography:
Aadil Raza received PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad. He has also
received MS degree in Nanoelectronics and Mechanics from The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom in 2009
and MSc degree in Electronics from the Quaid-i-Azam university, Islamabad, Pakistan in 2005. He is serving as an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics since 2007. His areas of research are Radio over Fiber systems, free
space optics, chaotic secure communication and advanced digital signal processing (ADSP) to realize high speed short
range optical links.
Course basics
Course Code: EEE231
Course Title: Electronics 1
Credit Hours: 4(3, 1)
Course Objectives:
This is a fundamental level course in electronic devices and circuit theory. The main objective of this course
is to make students understand the construction, operation and modeling of semiconductor devices and to
develop in them the ability to analyze and design different types of electronic circuits.
Course Contents (Theory):
Solid state theory, introduction to semiconductors devices, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, electron
hole pairs, distribution of electrons and holes in a semiconductors, pn junction diode, forward and reverse
biasing, of a diode, V-I characteristics, ideal and practical diodes, DC load line and quiescent conditions,
small signal analysis of diodes, dynamic resistance, AC resistance, capacitance and switching response,
diode circuits and applications, rectifiers and clipping circuits, special diodes and their applications, Zener
diodes, LED, photodiode, tunnel diode, temperature effects and derating curves, bjt transistors, biasing
techniques, common base, common emitter (CE) and emitter follower (CF) configurations, current flow
mechanism, equivalent circuits, current amplification, power calculations, theory of the operation of the
FET’s and MOSFET’s, types of FET’s, FET amplifiers and biasing techniques, temperature effects in BJT’s
and FET’s, bias stability, Q-point variations, stability factor analysis and control.
Labs:
Experiment 1: Introduction to laboratory equipment, oscilloscope, power supply, etc.
Experiment 2: Op-amp based circuits
Experiment 3: Inverting non-inverting integrator differentiator peak detector
Experiment 4: Half wave and full wave rectifier
Experiment 5: Rectifiers with filters
Experiment 6: Zener diode as a regulator
Experiment 7: Clippers and clampers
Experiment 8: Implementation of logic GATES using diodes
Experiment 9: Introduction to transistor components, transistor as switch
Experiment 10: VBE versus Ic Calculation
Experiment 11: Implementation of logic GATES using transistors
Experiment 12: DC Biasing of transistors
Experiment 13: Transistors as an amplifier
Experiment 14: 100 mV AC to 5 V DC conversion
Experiment 15: FET operations
Experiment 16: Power supply
Software:
A brief introduction to one of the following simulation software is also included in the lab.
1. Electronics workbench
2. Multisim
Recommended Textbooks:
1. Floyd, Electronic Devices.
2. A. S. Sedra, K. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, Oxford University Press
3. L. Nashelsky, Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, Pearson Education
Lectures Breakdown
Lecture # Lecture Contents
1. Introduction to Electronics
2. The Atom, Materials Used in Electronics, Current in Semiconductors
3. N-Type and P-Type Semiconductors, The PN Junction
4. Diode Operation, Diode Equivalent Circuits, Diode Approximations
5. Diode Models, Load-Line Analysis
6. Series Diode Configurations with DC Inputs and Problem Solving
7. Parallel and Series-Parallel Configurations, AND/OR Gates, Problem Solving
8. Diodes and Applications, Rectifiers, Half-Wave Rectifiers, Full-Wave Rectifiers
9. Power Supply Filters and Regulators
10. Diode Limiters/Clippers
11. Clampers Circuits
12. Voltage Multipliers
13. Problem Solving
14. Problem Solving
15. Special-Purpose Diodes, The Zener Diode
16. Zener Diode Applications
17. Problem Solving
18. The Varactor Diode
Optical Diodes
19. Different types of diodes, laser diode, the Schottky diode, the pin diode, the step-
recovery diode, the tunnel diode, and the current regulator diode.
20. Bipolar Junction Transistors, Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) Structure
21. Basic BJT Operation, BJT Characteristics and Parameters
22. The BJT as an Amplifier
23. The BJT as a Switch, The Phototransistor
24. Problems Solving
25. Transistor Bias Circuits, The DC Operating Point, Q-Point Stability
26. Voltage-Divider Bias, Collector-Feedback Bias
27. Other Bias Methods, Emitter Bias, Base Bias, Emitter-Feedback Bias
28. Field-Effect Transistors (FETs), The JFET, JFET Characteristics and Parameters
29. JFET Biasing, The Ohmic Region
30. The MOSFET, MOSFET Characteristics and Parameters, MOSFET Biasing
31. FET Amplifiers and Switching Circuits, The Common-Source Amplifier, The Common-
Drain Amplifier
32. The Common-Gate Amplifier, The Class D Amplifier, MOSFET Analog Switching,
MOSFET Digital Switching