Recall that a rectifier is a device that allows current to pass through it in one direction only. A diode can […]

In Chapter 5, we referred to clipping as the undesirable result of overdriving an amplifier. We have seen that any attempt

Generally speaking, electronic devices can be considered to “operate” (be used) in one of two distinct kinds of applications: small signal

The word astable means “unstable,” and, like other unstable devices, an astable rnultivibrator is a (square-wave) oscillator. (A bistable multivibrator, also

In its most general sense; hysteresis is a property that means a device behaves differently when its input is increasing from

In virtually every practical de circuit containing a diode, there is one simplifying assumption we can make when the diode current

The resistance we calculated in Section 3-2 using the relation t..VIM is called the ac (or dynamic) resistance of tbe diode.

As the name implies. a voltage comparator is a device used to compare .wo voltage levels. The output of the :;OTr”

INTRODUCTION In Chapter 2 we studied the construction and properties of a PN junction and mentioned that a semi conducror example

Acceptor An impurity atom used in the doping process to create a hole in a semiconductor crystal; contains 3 electrons in