BJT Amplifiers

Group : ZU059
Teacher : Arzu Ibrahimova
Students: Nazirli Ismat, Sadygov Baylar
Subject: Electronics
Introduction to BJT Amplifiers

• The BJT is an excellent amplifier when biased in the forward-active region.

• In these regions transistors can provide high voltage, current and power gains.
• DC bias is provided to stabilize the operating point in the desired operation
region.
• The DC Q-point also determines:
-The small-signal parameters of the transistor
-The voltage gain, input resistance, output resistance
-The maximum input and output signal amplitudes
-The overall power consumption of the amplifier.
The biasing of a transistor is purely a dc operation. The purpose of biasing
is to establish a Q-point about which variations in current and voltage can
occur in response to an ac input signal.
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 The linear amplifier
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 • Graphical ac load line operation
of the amplifier showing the
variation of the base current,
collector current, and collector-
to-emitter voltage about their dc
Q-point values. Ib and Ic are on
different scales.

AC Load line
Amplifier Operation
Example

A)Determine the resulting peak-to-peak

values of collector current and collector
-to-emitter voltage from the graph.

b)What are the dc Q-point values?

 The Common-Emitter Amplifier
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 DC analysis
• Considering CE amplifier circuit above, dc analysis can be done by removing the
coupling and bypass capacitors. Capacitors appear open with dc connected
 only we will have the voltage divider bias circuit shown.
 AC analysis Ac equivalent circuit for CE amplifier

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 AC analysis: input and output resistance
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 AC analysis: Voltage gain
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AC analysis : Voltage gain
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 AC analysis: Addition of swamping resistor
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 AC analysis : current
gain
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 • The common-collector amplifier is usually referred to as an
emitter-follower. The input is applied to the base through a
coupling capacitor, and the output is at the emitter ( no
phase change between input and output). The voltage gain
of a CC amplifier is approximately 1, and its main
advantages are its high input resistance and current gain.
The high input resistance is very useful to minimize the
The common- loading effect specially when circuit is driving a low-
resistance load CC amplifier is used as a buffer.
-collector
amplifier
 Voltage gain
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Common-
collector
amplifier
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The common-
base amplifier
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Common-
base
amplifier