CHAPTER 1 Low-Level Semiconductor Physics 1
1.1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.2 THE LATTICE STRUCTURE OF SILICON AND GERMANIUM 2
1.3 CURRENT BY THERMAL DIFFUSION 4
1.4 CURRENT BY DRIFT IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD 6
1.5 THERMAL EQUILIBIUM CARRIER DENSSTIES 7
1.6 CONDUCTIVITY OF SEMICONDUCTORS 12
1.7 LIFETIME AND DIFFUSION LENGTH OF CARRIERS 13
1.8 BIBLIOGRAPHY 15
CHAPTER 2 Low-Level Diode and Triode Analysis 16
2.1 THE P-N JUNCTION DIODE 16
2.2 THE P-N-P(AND N-P-N)JUNCTION TRANSISTOR 28
2.3 BIBLIOGRAPHY 41
CHAPTER 3 Gain and Impedance Formulas 43
3.1 INTRODUCTION 43
3.2 GAINFUL TRANSISTOR CONNECTIONS:EXACT AND APPROXIMATE FORMULAS 44
3.3 REVERSE TRANSISTOR CONNECTIONS:EXACT AND APPROXIMATE FORMULAS 49
3.4 POWER-GAIN DEFINITIVE EXPRESSIONS 54
3.5 SPECIAL IMPEDANCE-MATCHING(OR MISMATCHING)CASES:APPROXIMATE FORMULAS 56
3.6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 64
CHAPTER 4 Audio-Frequency Ampliflers 65
4.1 INTRODUCTION 65
4.2 SINGLE-STAGE AMPLIFIERS 67
4.3 TRANSFORMER-COUPLED AMPLIFIERS 74
4.4 CAPACITIVE-COUPLED AMPLIFIERS 76
4.5 DIRECT-COUPLED AMPLIFIERS 79
4.6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 81
CHAPTER 5 Transistor Biasing 82
5.1 METHODS AND PREDICTABILITY OF BIASING 82
5.2 BIAS STABILIZATION 90
5.3 BIBLIOGRAPHY 102
CHAPTER 6 Noise in Transistors 103
6.1 TYPES OF ELECTRONIC NOISE GENERATION 103
6.2 THE NOISE FIGURE OF AN AMPLIFIER 109
6.3 NOISE SOURCES WITHIA TRANSISTOR 110
6.4 NOISE FIGURES OF TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIERS 114
6.5 BIBLIOGRAPHY 118
CHAPTER 7 Degenerative Feedback 119
7.1 OVER-ALL GAIN AND IMPEDANCE PROPERTIES OF FEED-BACK AMPLIFIERS 119
7.2 NUMBER OF STAGES PER FEEDBACK LOOP:EFFECTS ON AMPLIFIER PERFORMANCE 127
7.3 SINGLE-STAGE FEEDBACK IN TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIERS 130
7.4 HIGH-IMPEDANCE INPUT STAGES 131
7.5 TWO-STAGE FEEDBACK IN TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIERS 134
7.6 MULTISTAGE FEEDBACK IN TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIERS 136
7.7 BIBLIOGRAPHY 138
CHAPTER 8 High-Level Physical Considerations 139
8.1 LARGE-SIGNAL LOAD-LINE LIMITATIONS 139
8.2 PARAMETER NON-LINEARITIES IN THE NORMAL OPERATING REGION 145
8.3 THE SYMMETRICAL TRANSISTOR EQUATIONS 149
8.4 COLLECTOR SATURATION CURRENTS 151
8.5 DIODE BREAKDOWN VOLTAGES 152
8.6 COLLECTOR BREAKDOWN VOLTAGES 154
8.7 EMITTER BREAKDOWN VOLTAGES 159
8.8 THERMAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR TRANSISTORS 160
8.9 A LARGE-SIGNAL EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT 163
8.10 BIBLIOGRAPHY 164
CHAPTER 9 Power Amplifiers 166
9.1 INTRODUCTION 166
9.2 MAXIMUM THEORETICAL OUTPUT POWERS 167
9.3 DISTRIBUTION OF POWER DISSIPATIONS WITHIN A TRANSISTOR 172
9.4 THERMAL RUNAWAY STABILITY FACTORS 173
9.5 CONVENTIONAL CLASS B CIRCUITS 178
9.6 COMPLEMENTARY CLASS B CIRCUITS 183
9.7 THE CLASS A-B PUSH-PULL CIRCUIT 185
9.8 BIBLIOGRAPHY 188
CHAPTER 10 Direct-Current Ampliflers 189
10.1 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GAIN AND BIAS STABILITY IN A D-C AMPLIFIER 189
10.2 SINGLE-SIDED D-C AMPLIFIERS 190
10.3 THE DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIER 194
10.4 OVER-ALL FEEDBACK FOR D-C AMPLIFIERS 198
10.5 THE CHOPPER AMPLIFIER 203
10.6 THE CHOPPER-STABILIZED D-C AMPLIFIER 204
10.7 THE AUTOMATIC-ZERO-SET D-C AMPLIFIER 205
10.8 BIBLIOGRAPHY 207
CHAPTER 11 Direct-Current Regulators 208
11.1 INTRODUCTION 208
11.2 THE ALLOY SILICON DIODE AS A VOLTAGE REFERENCE 210
11.3 THE REGULATION EQUATION 213
11.4 DIODE REGULATOR CIRCUITS 214
11.5 SHUNT REGULATOR CIRCUITS 215
11.6 A SERIES REGULATOR CIRCUIT 223
11.7 EMITTER-FOLLOWER REGULATOR CIRCUITS 224
11.8 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR D-C REGULATORS 226
11.9 BIBLIOGRAPHY 229
CHAPTER 12 High-Frequency Equivalent Circuits 231
12.1 INTRODUCTION 231
12.2 TWO-TERMINAL PAIR NETWORK REPRESENTATION 233
12.3 THE MAJOR PARTS OF A TRANSISTOR 239
12.4 BROADBAND ALPHA REPRESENTATION 241
12.5 INTRINSIC BROADBAND CIRCUITS 242
12.6 COMPLETE BROADBAND CIRCUITS 244
12.7 EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS FOR LIMITED BANDWIDTHS 247
12.8 BIBLIOGRAPHY 250
CHAPTER 13 Internal Feedback Compensation 251
13.1 INTRODUCTION 251
13.2 FEEDBACK REDUCTION BY MISMATCHING 252
13.3 UNILATERALIZATION AND NEUTRALIZATION 254
13.4 BIBLIOGRAPHY 261
CHAPTER 14 Video Amplifiers 262
14.1 DESIGN RESTRICTIONS FOR VIDEO AMPLIFIERS 262
14.2 TRANSISTOR GAIN-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS 263
14.3 WIDE-BAND AMPLIFIERS WITHOUT FEEDBACK 265
14.4 WIDE-BAND AMPLIFIERS WITH SINGIE-STAGE FEEDRACK 267
14.5 WIDE-BAND AMPLIFIERS WITH TWO-STAGE FEEDBACK 268
14.6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 270
CHAPTER 15 Frequency-Selective Amplifiers 271
15.1 BASIC PASSIVE CIRCUITS FOR TUNED AMPLIFIERS 271
15.2 SINGLE-TUNED INTERSTAGE COUPLING NETWORKS 275
15.3 DOUBLE-TUNED AMPLIFIERS 283
15.4 FILTERS OR FREQUENCY-SHAPING NETWORKS 287
15.5 BIBLIOGRAPHY 292
CHAPTER 16 Gain Control 294
16.1 MANUAL GAIN CONTROL 294
16.2 AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL:INTERNAL 297
16.3 AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL:EXTERNAL 300
16.4 BIBLIOGRAPHY 303
CHAPTER 17 Sinusoidal Oscillators 304
17.1 LINEAR THEORY FOR OSCILLATORS 304
17.2 NEGATIVE-RESISTANCE OSCILLATORS 306
17.3 FEEDBACK OSCILLATORS 310
17.4 PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR OSCILLATORS 321
17.5 BIBLIOGRAPHY 323
CHAPTER 18 Modulation 324
18.1 INTRODUCTION 324
18.2 GENERAL AMPLITUDE-MODULATION CONSIDERATIONS 326
18.3 "LINEAR"COLLECTOR MODULATION 327
18.4 "NON-LINEAR"(SQUARE-LAW)BASE-EMITTER MODULATION 330
18.5 MODULATED OSCILLATORS 335
18.6 SIMPLE DETECTORS 336
18.7 BIBLIOGRAPHY 338
CHAPTER 19 Switching Theory 339
19.1 INTRODUCTION 339
19.2 SWITCHING STATICS 343
19.3 LAPLACE TRANSFORMS 352
19.4 SWITCHING DYNAMICS:OVER-ALL SWITCHING TIMES 357
19.5 SWITCHING DYNAMICS:INITIAL TRANSIENTS 368
19.6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 374
CHAPTER 20 Non-regenerative Switching Circuits 375
20.1 INTRODUCTION 375
20.2 HIGH-QUALITY SWITCHES 376
20.3 CLAMPING TECHNIQUES 382
20.4 INTRODUCTORY SWITCHING MATHEMATICS 386
20.5 D-c LOGIC CIRCUITS 390
20.6 SOME PULSE CIRCUITS 408
20.7 BIBLIOGRAPHY 411
CHAPTER 21 Regenerative Switching Circuits 412
21.1 A SCHMITT-TYPE TRIGGER 412
21.2 A BLOCKING OSCILLATOR 416
21.3 BASIC MULTIVIBRATOR CIRCUITS 420
21.4 FLIP-FLOPS 427
21.5 NEGATIVE-RESISTANCE SWITCHING CIRCUITS 435
21.6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 441
CHAPTER 22 Transister-Saturable Reactor Circuits 443
22.1 INTRODUCTION 443
22.2 THE TSR MULTIVIBRATOR 444
22.3 A TSR BLOCKING OSCILLATOR 454
22.4 SOME TSR COMPUTING CIRCUITS 456
22.5 BIBLIOGRAPHY 460
INDEX 463