NAME : Khawla Abd-Alrahman Alsarari

UNIVERSITY NUMBER : 200911224

GROUP (1) : Khawla Sarari + Mais
Badarneh
EXPERIMENT(3) : Zener Diode
Characteristics & Voltage regulator
Electronics LAB (0901321)
1

Date : 27-3-2012
The Objectives
The objective of this experiment
: is
To identify the leads of the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) by
.using the DMM
To investigate the DC behavior , analyze and design a DC bias
circuit , its operating point , and the characteristics of a BJT in
.several region of operation

Part- A Zener Diode Characteristics

Vs(v
)

5.2

5.5

6.5

Id(A
)

0.14
A 6

0.241
A

0489
A

1.60
A 5

5.49
A 6

29.85
A 3

0.389
mA 3

1.08
ma 3

Vd(
v)

0.84
5

1.648

3.27
7

4.10
6

4.274

4.50
4

4.90
4

5.32
5

5.737

6.146

6.17
6

the reverse diode current vs. the reverse diode

voltage is shown below

: Part B zener Diode Voltage regulator

B-1 Effect of the Dc Voltage source on the
zener regulator
Vs(V)
Vo(V)
Is(mA
)
IL(mA
)
Iz(mA
)
Pz(m
W)
%V.R

0.845

1.648

3.277

4.106

4.904

5.737

6.146

6.176

0.4664 0.906
mA mA

3.3235 4.1217
mA
mA

4.9385 5.8071 8.053

mA
mA
mA

12.374
mA

0.378
mA

0.742
mA

0.0465 0.157
mA
mA

0.0345 0.701
mA
mA

1.907
mA

6.198
mA

0.0884
mA

0.164
mA

3.277
mA

4.9045 5.1
mA
mA

6.146
mA

6.172
mA

0.5304
mW

0.984
mW

19.662 23.788
mW
mW 2

29.427 30.6
mW
mW

36.876 37.032
mW
mW

633.8

276.2

89.2%

26.4%

0.89%

3.9647
mA

51%

8%

404%.
3

IL = Vo/RL
Iz=Is-IL
Pz=Iz*Vz
Vz =6 V
V.R =( VNL VFL)/ VFl *100%
VNL = 6.201 V

: Conclusion
We learned about the zener diode and how it differ
from another types of diodes by its operating region ..
that is the zener diode operates in the reverse
breakdown region .. the zener diode has a constant
voltage and this make the zener diode useful in
voltage regulator which is a circuit used to maintain a
constant DC output voltage across the load terminals
. by reducing the ripple voltage