ourse Objectives:
After completion of this course students will be able to:
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- Analyze electric circuits
- Gain familiarity with semiconductor devices
- Introduction of semiconductor logic
Course Contents:
Unit I: Electric Circuit Elements ——————————————— 2 Hours
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- Resistors
- Inductors
- Capacitors
- Voltage
- Current Sources
Unit II: DC Circuits ————————————————————- 7 Hours
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- Ohm’s Law
- Series and parallel circuits
- Power and energy
- Kirchhoffs voltage and current laws
- Loop and nodal equations Maximum power transfer theorem
- Thevenin’s
- Norton’s equivalent circuits
Unit III: Single-Phase AC circuits ——————————————- 7 Hours
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- Sinusoidal waveform
- Resistors
- Inductors and capacitors with sinusoidal excitation
- Phasor representation of AC quantities
- Concept of complex impedance and admittance
- Average and effective values of voltages and currents
- Power in AC:
- Instantaneous power
- Average power
- Real power
- Apparent power
- Power factor
Unit IV: Semi-conducting Materials —————————————– 5 Hours
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- Energy band structures of conductors
- Insulators and semiconductors
- Fermi level and energy gap
- Conduction principle in semiconductors, electrons and holes, Donor and acceptor impurities n-and p-type semiconductors
Unit V: The P-n Junction diode ———————————————- 7 Hours
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- Formation of space-charge region in p-n junction
- Energy band structure and barrier potential
- The p-n junction under forward bias and reverse bias
- Characteristic curve, diode load line
- Application of diode (logic gates: AND, OR, NOT and rectifiers: half and full wave)
- Zener diode, characteristics and applications
Unit VI: Bipolar Junction Transistor ————————————— 7 Hours
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- Transistor types:
- pnp and npn transistors
- Principle of operation and parameter
- Their relationships.
- Transistor configurations:
- Common base
- Common emitter
- Common collector
- Amplification
- Input and output impedance
- Biasing
- Dc and Ac load lines
- Operating point
- Application of BJT (Resistor Transistor logic gates: AND, OR)
- Transistor types:
Unit VII: Junction Field-Effect Transistor ——————————— 4 Hours
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- Construction
- Types and principle of operation
- JEET quadratic characteristics
- Biasing and load line
Unit VII: Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor ——– 4 Hours
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- Construction
- n-MOS and p-MOS
- Principle of operation
- Depletion and Enhancement type MOSFETs
- Quadratic characteristics
Unit VIII: The Operational Amplifier ————————————– 5 Hours
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- The ideal operational amplifier and its characteristics
- Inverting and non-inverting amplifiers
- Summing amplifier
- Integrating and differentiating ampliflers
Laboratory:
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- Verification of Kirchhoffs voltage and current laws
- Verification of maximum power transfer theorem
- Measurement of active, reactive and apparent powers in a single-phase ac circuit
- Characteristics of different diodes: silicon diode, germanium diode, zener diode
- To verify Logic gates using diodes and resistors.
- To rectify ac signals using one and two diodes.
- Input and output characteristics of a common – emitter transistor
- Output and transfer characteristics of a common-source JFET
- Output and transfer characteristic of a common-source MOSFET
- Inverting and non-inverting operational amplifier circuits
Reference Books:
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- Sedra and Smith: Microelectronic Circuits
- Shaum Series: Electronic Circuit
- BL Thereja: A Textbook of Electrical Technology Vol- I
- J. B. Gupta: Electronic Device and Circuits