INTRODUCTION TO COMMON EMITTER (CE) TRANSISTOR

AMPLIFIER

Amplifier is a device that increases the level of any

electronic signal. This includes power, voltage and current as
examples. Amplifier can be a single stage or multistage.
Multistage amplifiers are also called Cascaded Amplifiers. In a
common emitter amplifier, the emitter terminal of the transistor
is connected to the ground or common ground, the base terminal
is the input and the collector terminal is the output. Figure 1.1
shows the basic configuration of a common emitter (CE) amplifier.

Figure 1.1 The Common Emitter (CE) Amplifier

Capacitors C1 and C2 serves as the input and output coupling

capacitors respectively and capacitor C E serves as the emitter
bypass capacitor.
Take note that in the DC analysis all capacitors are treated as
open due to infinite value of capacitive reactance, thats why the
capacitors do not appear during the DC analysis. Figure 1.2 shows
the DC equivalent circuit of the CE amplifier.
 Figure 1.2 DC and AC equivalent model of a CE amplifier
At AC analysis all capacitors are treated as short circuit due to
zero reactance, thats why the emitter resistor is being bypassed
and treated as short circuit as shown in Figure 1.2

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson the learner will be able to
Analyze the operation of a CE amplifier
Solve a DC and AC analysis
Compare the input and output resistances
Examine the voltage gain, current gain, and power gain

Learning Activity
1. Group yourselves into five members, from the given circuit
of Figure 1.1, solve the DC and AC analysis.
2. Compute the input and out resistances of the given circuit.
3. Examine the gain of the given amplifier.
4. Using the Multisim Electronic Workbench circuit simulator,
you can measure the unknown parameters of problems 1-3
 as shown in Figure 1.3.

Figure 1.3 Multisim Simulation of the CE amplifier

5. Compare your computed values from the measured values

using the simulation.
6. Create a table showing your measured and computed values
7. Print-Screen the simulation and paste it to Microsoft Word,
upload your output to Moodle on or before May 10, 2017.