Electronics and Solid State Devices

B.Sc. pt II Course

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Dates and timings:

Friday and Saturday, 08:00 AM – 09:00 AM (IST)

Starting date:

Revision of pre-requisites from August 12,

new course material from August 26, 2016

  • Revision Lecture 0.1, 0.2: Introduction to Electronics: 12 and 13 August 2016
  • Revision Lecture 0.3, 0.4: Voltage and current source and their uses.: 19 and 20 August 2016
  • Lecture 1: Circuit analysis: 26 August 2016
  • Lecture 2: Open and Close parameters: 27 August 2016
  • Lecture 3: Four terminal network and it's characteristics: 2 September 2016
  • Lecture 4: Superposition, Thevenin, Norton theorems: 3 September 2016
  • Lecture 5: Reciprocity, compensation theorems: 9 September 2016
  • Lecture 6: Maximum power transfer and Miller theorems: 10 September 2016
  • Lecture 6: Semi-conductors and their properties: 16 September 2016
  • Lecture 7: Charge densities in N and P materials: 17 September 2016
  • Lecture 8: Conduction by drift and diffusion of charge carriers: 23 September 2016
  • Lecture 9: Introduction to PN junction diode: 24 September 2016
  • Lecture 10: Characteristics curve for PN Junction diode:: 20 September 2016

I took this subject for teaching because of unavailability of teachers. In October 2016, new teacher took this responsibility. So, this course is over.

Unit I

Circuit analysis: Networks-some important definitions, loop and nodal equations based on DC and AC circuits (Kirchhof's Laws).

Four terminal network: Ampere-volt conventions, open, close and hybrid parameters of any four terminal network; Input, Output and mutual impedence for an active four terminal network.

Various circuit theorems: Superposition, Thevenin, Norton, reciprocity, compensation, maximum power transfer and Miller theorems. PN junction: Charge densities in N and P materials; Conduction by drift and diffusion of charge carriers, PN diode equation; capacitance effects.

Unit II

Rectifiers: Half-wave, full wave and bridge rectifier: calculation of ripple factor, efficiency and regulation; Filters: series inductor, shunt capacitor, L section and π section filters.

Voltage regulation: Voltage regulation and voltage stabilization by Zener diode, voltage multiplier.Transistors: Notations and volt-ampere characteristics for bipolar junctions transistor; Concept of load line and operating point, Hybrid parameters. CB, CE, CC configurations; Junction field effect transistor (JFET) and metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), Circuit symbols, biasing and volt-ampere characteristics, source follower operation of FET as variable voltage resister.

Unit III

Transistor biasing: Need of bias and stability of Q point, stability factors and various types of bias circuits for thermal bias stability: fixed bias, collector to base feed back bias and four resistor bias.Amplifiers: Analysis of transistor amplifiers using hybrid parameters and its gain-frequency response; Cascade amplifiers, basic idea of direct coupled and R-C coupled amplifiers; Differential amplifiers.

Amplifier with feed back: Concept of feed back, positive and negative feed back, voltage and current feed back circuits.

Advantages of negative feed back: Stabilization of gain, effect of negative feed back on output and intput resistance, reduction of nonlinear distortion, effect on gain - frequency response.

Unit IV

Oscillators: Criteria for self excited and self sustained oscillations, circuit requirement for build-up of oscillation; Basic transistor oscillator circuit and its analysis: Colpitt's and Hartely oscillators, RC Oscillators, crystal oscillators and its advantages. Logic circuits: Logic fundamentals: AND, OR, NOT, NOR, NAND, XOR gates, Boolean algebra, De Morgan's theorem, positive and negative logic, logic gates circuit realization using DTL and TTL logic, simplification of Boolean expressions.

Reference books

  1. John D. Ryder, Electronic Fundamentals and Applications, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
  2. John D. Ryder, Engineering Electronics, McGraw Hill Book Company, New Delhi.
  3. Jacob Millman and Christosc Hailkias, Integrated Electronics. Analog and Digital Circuits and systems: McGraw-Hill Ltd. (1972)
  4. Albert Paul Malvino, Digital Computer Electronics, Tata McGraw-Hill publication Co. Ltd., New Delhi (1983)
  5. Kumar & Gupta, Hand book of Electronics.
  6. G.K. Mithal, Hand Book of Electronics.
  7. G.K. Mithal, Electronics Devices and Applications.
  8. R.P. Jain, Digital Electronics.