TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILLIPINES

College of Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department
Ayala Blvd. Ermita, Manila, 1000, Philippines

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS 2
LABORATORY

EXPERIMENT 4:
COMMON SOURCE JFET AMPLIFIER
USING AC SOURCE

SUBMITTED BY:
BALATAYO, GLENN P.

BSEE 2I

SUBMITTED TO:
MR. FRANCIS ANGELO MACA

DATE SUBMITTED:
June 23, 2022
I. OBJECTIVE:

To investigate the operation of a common-source JFET transistor

amplifier using AC source.

II. DISCUSSION:

The common source amplifier is one of the three basic FET transistor
amplifier configurations. In comparison to the BJT common-emitter amplifier,
the FET amplifier has much higher input impedance, but a lower voltage gain.
In this experiment, the student will build and investigate a simple /-channel,
common source JFET amplifier.

III. MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENTS:

1-100mV AC power supply

1-12V DC source

1-Oscilloscope

1-Digital tester

1-JFET 2N5566

1-2.2kΩ, 1kΩ, 10kΩ, 100kΩ resistors

1-0.01µF, 1µF, 10µF capacitors

IV. PROCEDURES:

1. Build the circuit shown in Fig. 6 without the load R=10KΩ.

2. Measure and record the DC voltages at the FET terminals.

3. Then, connect the oscilloscope to various test points (A, B, C and Vo).
Draw and measure the waveforms.

4. Now, try removing Cs then observe and measure the output voltage.

5. Try connecting the load R=10KΩ and repeat procedures 2-4. Then
record the results
 V. DATA AND RESULTS:

Without load: With Load:

Av expected= Av expected=

Av measured= Vo/Vi= 13.32 Av measured= Vo/Vi= 10.96

Vo= 1.332V Vo= 1.096V

Vi= 99.999mV Vi= 100Mv

SIMULATION

Circuit 1 (without load):

 Circuit 2 (with load):

Circuit 3 (without load and bypass):

 Voltage Gain:

Circuit 1: Circuit 2: Circuit 3:

𝑉𝑜 1.332𝑉 𝑉𝑜 1.096𝑉 𝑉𝑜 187.532𝑉
𝐴𝑣 = = 𝐴𝑣 = = 𝐴𝑣 = =
𝑉𝑖 99.999𝑚𝑉 𝑉𝑖 100𝑚𝑉 𝑉𝑖 100𝑚𝑉
𝑨𝒗 = 𝟏𝟑. 𝟑𝟐 𝑨𝒗 = 𝟏𝟎. 𝟗𝟔 𝑨𝒗 = 𝟏. 𝟖𝟖

VII. QUESTIONS:

1. What is the purpose of the source bypass capacitor?

- The bypass capacitor is used as a bypass AC signal to ground. A capacitor

is connected between the ground and the wire. For an AC signal, the capacitor
performs short and bypasses it. The DC gone through the capacitor behaves
as an open for DC. DC is supplied directly to the IC. A Bypass capacitor is
used in:
Power conditioning and Power factor correction
Real-time clock calendar with EEPROM
DC/DC Converter
Voltage Reference
DSL Amplifiers
Signal coupling and Decoupling
High pass and Low pass filters
2. How do the waveforms seen at the FET’s drain (point C) and the output (Vo)
compare?

- The waveforms seen at the FET’s drain at point C, it’s different from
the output voltage based on the values of the 4 channels of oscilloscope and
the value of output voltage.
3. What kind of waveform, if any, is seen at point B?

- In channel 1, 2, and four, the waveform is like a square wave while in

the third channel, it’s like a square wave that’s almost a straight line.
4. After removing Cs, did the output decrease as expected?
-Yes, the result values from the multimeter shows that the output
voltage decreased as we remove C’s
VI. CONCLUSION:

- On this experiment, it enables me to observe the operation of a

common-source JFET transistor amplifier using AC source. The
common-source amplifier is one of three basic single-stage field effect
transistor (FET) amplifier topologies, typically used as a voltage or
transconductance amplifier. The easiest way to tell if a FET is common
source, common drain, or common gate is to examine where the signal
enters and leaves. The remaining terminal is what is known as "common".
The signal enters the gate and exits the drain. The only terminal remaining
is the source. A suitable quiescent point or “Q-point” needs to be found
for the correct biasing of the JFET amplifier circuit with single amplifier
configurations of Common-source (CS), Common drain (CD) or Source-
follower (SF) and the Common-gate (CG) available for most FET devices.
These three JFET amplifier configurations correspond to the common-
emitter, emitter-follower and the common-base configurations using
bipolar transistors.