Main Page > BS Physics 4-Years Program (1st to 8th semester) (Regular) > Basic Electronics
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Basic Electronics
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Fundamental Solid-State Principles, Atomic theory, Metals, insulators and semiconductors, Conduction in Silicon and Germanium, doping, The forbidden energy gap, n and p type semiconductors. The Semiconductor Diode: Introduction to pn junction diode, Bias, the ideal diode, the practical diode model, other practical considerations, the complete diode model, voltage-current characteristics. Common Diode applications: Transformers and power supply, Half-wave rectifiers, full-wave rectifiers, full-wave Bridge rectifiers, wave shaping circuits using diode, voltage multiplier circuits. Special applications Diodes: Zener diodes, light emitting diodes, photodiodes, capacitance effects in the pn junction, other diodes. Circuit analysis: DC circuit analysis, single and multi-loop circuits, Kirchhoff’s rules, RC circuits, Charging and discharging of a capacitor, RL circuits, AC circuit analysis using the j-operator, RLC circuits, superposition theorem, Thevenin’s theorem, Norton’s theorem, the hybrid parameter equivalent model, graphical depiction of hybrid-parameters, variation of transistor parameters. Bipolar Junction Transistors: Introduction to Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs), transistor construction and operation, transistor characteristics curves, conept of load line. Bipolar Junction Transistors applications: Transistor as an amplifier, basic transistor configurations, transistor as a switch, concept of decibels, Feedback principle and circuits. |
| Credit hours/ Marks:- 3 |
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