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EC-304 · Electronic Devices/Official Syllabus

Electronic Devices (EC-304) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Semiconductor Material Properties

  • Elemental & compound semiconductor materials
  • Bonding forces and Energy bands in intrinsic and extrinsic silicon
  • Charge carrier in semiconductors
  • carrier concentration
  • Junction properties
  • Equilibrium condition
  • biased junction
  • Steady state condition
  • breakdown mechanism (Rectifying Diodes, Zener Diodes)
  • Metal Semiconductor Junction
  • Special diodes: Tunnel diodes, Varactor diodes, Schottky diode, Photo diodes, Photodetector, LED, solar cell
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Unit 2

Diode circuits

  • Ideal and Practical diode
  • Clipper
  • Clamper
  • Power Supply: Rectifiers-Half wave, Full wave, Bridge rectifier
  • filter circuits
  • Voltage regulation using shunt & series regulator circuits
  • Voltage regulation using IC
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Unit 3

Fundamentals of BJT

  • Construction, basic operation, current components and equations
  • CB, CE and CC configuration
  • input and output characteristics
  • Early effect
  • Region of operations: active, cut-off and saturation region
  • BJT as an amplifier
  • Ebers-Moll model
  • Power dissipation in transistor (Pd, max rating)
  • Photo transistor
  • Transistor biasing circuits and analysis: Introduction, various biasing methods: Fixed bias, Self bias, Voltage Divider bias, Collector to base bias
  • Load-line analysis: DC and AC analysis
  • Operating Point and Bias Stabilization and Thermal Runaway
  • Transistor as a switch
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Unit 4

Small Signal analysis & Power Amplifiers

  • Small signal Amplifier
  • Amplifier Bandwidth
  • Hybrid model
  • analysis of transistor amplifier using h-parameter
  • Multistage Amplifier: Cascading amplifier
  • Boot-strapping Technique
  • Darlington amplifier and cas-code amplifier
  • Coupling methods in multistage amplifier
  • Low and high frequency response
  • Hybrid πmodel
  • Current Mirror circuits
  • Large Signal analysis and Power Amplifiers: Class A, Class B, Class AB, Class C, Class D
  • Transformer coupled and Push-Pull amplifier
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Unit 5

FET construction & Special Devices

  • JFET: Construction, n-channel and p-channel, transfer and drain characteristics, parameters
  • Equivalent model and voltage gain, analysis of FET in CG, CS and CD configuration
  • Enhancement and Depletion MOSFET drain and transfer Characteristics
  • Uni-junction Transistor (UJT) and Thyristors: UJT: Principle of operation, characteristics
  • UJT relaxation oscillator

Laboratory Experiments

  • Diode Characteristic — a) pn junction diode Characteristics and Static & Dynamic resistance measurement from graph. b) To plot Zener diode Characteristics curve.
  • Clipper Clamper — a) To plot the Characteristics curve of various clamper circuits. b) To plot the Characteristics curve of various clamper circuits.
  • Half wave, full wave & bridge rectifier — a) To measure Vrms, Vdc for half wave, full wave & bridge rectifier. b) To measure ripple factor, ratio of rectification for full wave & half wave rectifier.
  • Voltage regulation using zener diode shunt regulator and transistor series voltage regulator in the following cases — a) Varying input b) Varying load
  • Characteristic of BJT — a) To plot the input & output Characteristics curve in CB & CE configuration b) To find  &  and Q point from the above curve. c) To plot the Characteristics curve of various clipper circuits.
  • h- Parameter — To measure h- parameter (Av, Ai, Ro & Ri) in CE Amplifier
  • Multi Stage Amplifier — a) To plot the Characteristics curve for Direct Coupled Amplifier. b) To plot the Characteristics curve for RC Coupled Amplifier. c) To plot the Characteristics curve for transformer Coupled Amplifier.
  • FET Characteristic — a) To plot the Characteristics curve for n channel – JFET in CS configuration. b) To find out pinch off voltage from the above characteristics curve
  • UJT Characteristic — a) To plot the Characteristics curve for UJT. b) To determine intrinsic stand off ratio.

Reference Books

  • Electronic Devices And Circuits — Millman, Halkias — TMH
  • Electronic Devices And Circuits — Salivahanan, Kumar, Vallavaraj — TMH
  • Electronic Devices & Circuits — Boylestad, Neshelsky — PHI
  • Electronic Circuits , Discrete & Integrated — Schilling, Belove — TMH
  • Electronic Fundamentals & Applications — Chattopadhyay, Rakhshit — New Age
  • Microelectronic Circuits — Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith — OUP
  • Op-Amps And Linear Integrated Circuits — R. A. Gayakwad — PHI
  • Guillermo Rico Electronic Devices & Circuits — Theodore F. Bogart, Jeffrey S. Beasley
  • Electronic Devices & Circuits — Allen Mottershead
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