Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Diode Applications
Load-Line Analysis
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 2 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Series Diode Configurations
Forward Bias
Constants
Silicon Diode: VD = 0.7 V
Germanium Diode: VD = 0.3 V
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 3 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Series Diode Configurations
Reverse Bias
Diodes ideally behave as open circuits
Analysis
VD = E
VR = 0 V
ID = 0 A
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 4 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Parallel Configurations
V 0.7 V
D
V V V 0.7 V
D1 D2 O
V 9.3 V
R
EV 10 V .7 V
I D 28 mA
R R .33k
28 mA
I I 14 mA
D1 D2 2
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 5 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Half-Wave Rectification
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 6 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
PIV (PRV)
Because the diode is only forward biased for one-half of the AC cycle, it is
also reverse biased for one-half cycle.
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 7 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Full-Wave Rectification
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 8 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Full-Wave Rectification
Bridge Rectifier
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 9 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Full-Wave Rectification
Center-Tapped Transformer
Rectifier
Requires
Two diodes
Center-tapped transformer
VDC = 0.636Vm
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 10 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Summary of Rectifier Circuits
Center-Tapped Transformer
VDC = 0.636Vm VDC = 0.636Vm 0.7 V
Rectifier
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 11 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Diode Clippers
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 12 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Biased Clippers
Adding a DC source in
series with the clipping
diode changes the
effective forward bias of
the diode.
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 13 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Parallel Clippers
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 14 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Summary of Clipper Circuits
more
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 15 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Summary of Clipper Circuits
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 16 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Clampers
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 17 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Biased Clamper Circuits
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 18 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.
Summary of Clamper Circuits
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, 10/e Copyright 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky 19 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved.