VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY – HO CHI MINH CITY

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

ELECTRONICS DEVICES LABORATORY

COURSE ID: EE091IU

INSTRUCTOR: M. ENG NGUYEN HOANG AN

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Lab 4 Reviews

In the fourth Lab, you were studying:

 The introduction of the Common Emitter Amplifier (NPN).
 The DC and AC analysis process in measurement of the above circuit.
 The roles and effect of coupling and bypass capacitors .
 Practice implemented the above circuits in the simulation platforms.

Reminding

 Submit your Lab report and simulation files for Lab 4 on Blackboard.
 Late submission will be receiving penalty of 20% per day of late submission.
 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY – HO CHI MINH CITY
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

LAB 5
Common Emitter Amplifier (PNP)
LABORATORY

INSTRUCTOR: M. ENG NGUYEN HOANG AN 3

Lecture Outline

1) Objectives

2) Discussion of Fundamentals

3) Practical Procedures

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 I Objectives

You will be introduced to:

 The Common Emitter (CE) Amplifier circuit.
 The process of DC and AC Analysis in measurement.
 Examine different conditions in AC signal amplification of
the CE Amplifier circuit.
 The application of those concepts in simulation program.

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 II Discussion of Fundamentals
1a. Signal Amplifier

 Simple box or block containing

the amplifying devices, such as
Op-Amp, BJT or FET.
 The output signal being much
greater than that of the input
signal as it has been
Figure 1: Amplifier gain of the input signal
“Amplified”.
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 II Discussion of Fundamentals
1b. Class A Amplifier Operation (BJT)
Figure 2: The output waveform of
amplified signal
 The transistor is perfectly biased
within its active region.
 The output transistor always has a
constant DC biasing current, (ICQ)
flowing through it/The output
transistors never turn “OFF”.
 Thus a Class-A amplifier is very
inefficient as most of this DC power is
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 II Discussion of Fundamentals
1c. Output characteristics curves
Figure 3: BJT output characteristic curve
 The Quiescent – point (Q point) is the
center point of the DC load line.
 Saturation region: Fully ON, .
 Cut-off region: Fully OFF,
 Transistor biasing is the process of setting a
transistors DC operating voltage or current
conditions to the correct level so that any
AC input signal can be amplified
appropriately.
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 II Discussion of Fundamentals
2a. DC Analysis 𝑉 𝐸𝐸 − 𝐼 𝐸 𝑅 𝐸 −𝑉 𝐸𝐵 − 𝐼 𝐵 𝑅 𝐵 −𝑉 𝐵𝐵 =0

Figure 4: Voltage Divider Transistor Biasing 9

 II Discussion of Fundamentals
2b. AC Analysis

Figure 5: Common Emitter Amplifier 10

3. Lab report

• Use your simulation software of choice to conduct the experiment

• Follow the instruction procedure
• Capture the simulation circuits and output waveforms, attach them into the lab report
• Conclude about the experiments
• Submit via Blackboard before the day of the next Lab
• Plagiarism violation: similarity score must be less than 30%.
• Note: Remember to follow the Template for LAB report
• Instruction: Put your simulation files for each problems and the report (PDF format)
in a folder named as:
• EDLab_Name1st_Name2nd_Lab#
• Then compress as *.rar or *.zip file and submit via Blackboard.

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