EXPERIMENT No 3

Objective: To Study the Semiconductor diode as a half wave rectifier.

Apparatus:
Function Generator 01
Oscilloscope 01
Diode Silicon 01
Project Board 01

Circuit Diagram:

AC

R VR
VSinwt

Procedure:

1 Make the circuit on the bread board according to the circuit diagram then switch
on the function generator and set the freq 1 Khz
2 Now switch on the oscilloscope and insert the input leads of oscilloscope to the
output circuit
3 For positive half wave rectification I connect the +ve terminal of diode to the +ve
side of battery In this case oscilloscope shows the +ve half cycle on its screen
4 Increase the voltage gradually and note voltages
5 For ve half cycle record the readings also.
6 Also draw the corresponding waveforms.
Observations

input Diode f Input waveform Output waveform

Sr Voltage Voltage
NO (volts) Vd Hz
1 0.172 0.7 6.30

2 0.191 0.7 6.30

3 0.210 0.7 6.30

4 0.220 0.7 6.30

5 0.231 0.7 6.30

Conclusion: