Feedback in Amplifiers

Feedback in Amplifiers

Feedback
Feedback is the process of taking a part of
the output and feeding it back to the input. For this we need a feedback network or a -network.

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General structure of a feedback amplifier

If xi = xs xf ; it is negative or degenerative feedback. If xi = xs + xf ; it is positive or regenerative feedback.

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(a) Open-loop or non-feedback system

(b) Feedback introduced through -network.

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 The input to the basic amplifier gets

modified to v. As a result, the output gets modified to vo All the time the input v knows what the output vo is. Such a system is called closed-loop or feedback system.

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Types of feedback

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(a) Series-voltage feedback

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(b) Series-current feedback

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(c) Shunt-voltage feedback

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(d) Shunt-current feedback

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Voltage Gain of a Feedback Amplifier

Voltage gain of feedback amplifier is

Because of negative feedback, the effective input is Feedback voltage, Internal gain,
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Therefore, the gain of the negative feedback amplifier is

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Feedback in dB

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Advantages of Negative Feedback

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Stability
If A 1,
It means Af becomes independent of A. Suppose due to some reason, A changes by dA. The corresponding change in Af is found as

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Thus, we find that the fractional change is reduced by a factor called desensitivity,

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The gain reduces by 2 %.

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