Basic Electronics Lab Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara

Name: Patel Didhit Roll No.: 202111025

Laboratory Report
Experiment-5: Study of Normal and Zener Diode Characteristics.

Code Number of Diode: (i) Normal Diode: 1N914

(ii) Zener Diode: UMZ6_2K

A. Table-I: For Normal Diode

1. Forward biased
Applied Voltage (in V) Current (in Ma)

0 0

0.4 0.013

0.45 0.03

0.5 0.05

0.55 0.81

0.6 0.11

0.65 0.152

0.7 0.191

0.75 0.232

0.8 0.275

0.85 0.318

0.95 0.406

1 0.452

2 1.4

2.5 1.88

3 2.37

3.5 2.86

4 3.36
 4.5 3.8

5 4.34

2.Reverse biased

Applied Voltage (in V) Current (in Na)

0.02 0.9

0.03 1.21

0.04 1.48

0.05 1.69

0.06 1.86

0.07 1.98

0.08 2.09

0.09 2.17

0.1 2.24

0.2 2.48

0.4 2.52

0.6 2.52

2 2.52

3 2.52

4 2.52

B. Table-II: For Zener Diode

Applied Voltage (in V) Current (in µA)

 0 0

-1 0.0000018

-2 0.0000034

-3 0.0000179

-4 0.000465

-5 0.01559

-6 0.502

-6.144 1.34

-6.2 17.32

-6.256 40.59

-6.3 63.86

-6.355 88.76

-6.4 112.57

-6.44 131.47

-6.5 161.28

-6.56 187.26

-6.6 211

-6.65 235.9

-6.7 260.32

-6.74 285.76

-6.8 309.57

-6.84 333.74

-6.9 359.88

-6.95 386.04

-7 408.938

0.05 0.000142
 0.1 0.000476

0.2 0.004

0.3 0.023

0.4 0.156

0.5 1

0.6 7.4

0.7 86.93

0.8 1000

0.9 7000

1 15000

Graphs: Plot I-V characteristics for both the diodes and estimate the required parameters.

1. I-V characteristic of Normal diode

i) Forward biased
 Threshold voltage of Normal Diode (in V) =

ii) Reversed biased

2. I-V characteristic of Zener Diode.
Results: Table-III
Threshold voltage of Normal Diode (in V) 0.6

Static resistance of Normal Diode (in Ω) 5217

Dynamic resistance of Normal Diode (in Ω) 383

Threshold voltage of Zener diode (in V) 0.78

Zener breakdown voltage (in V) 6.2