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Chapter 3

This document provides solutions to problems involving diode circuit analysis: 1) It calculates the current through a diode operated at 0.5V given its forward voltage of 0.7V at 1mA. 2) It calculates the saturation current of a diode that conducts 5mA at 0.7V, and then uses this to find the current at other voltages. 3) It analyzes a half-wave rectifier circuit with a diode, transformer, and resistive load to find: a) the peak rectified output voltage, b) the fraction of the cycle the diode conducts, c) the average output voltage, and d) the average current in the load.

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Chapter 3

This document provides solutions to problems involving diode circuit analysis: 1) It calculates the current through a diode operated at 0.5V given its forward voltage of 0.7V at 1mA. 2) It calculates the saturation current of a diode that conducts 5mA at 0.7V, and then uses this to find the current at other voltages. 3) It analyzes a half-wave rectifier circuit with a diode, transformer, and resistive load to find: a) the peak rectified output voltage, b) the fraction of the cycle the diode conducts, c) the average output voltage, and d) the average current in the load.

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Problem Solving Chapter 3: Diode

19.

A diode for which the forward voltage is 0.7 V at 1.0 mA and for which n = 1 is
operated at0.5 V. What is the value of the current?
Answer:

i1 I s e 0.7 / vT 1 mA
i2 I s e 0.5 / vT
Thus,
i2
i
23 e
i1 10

20.

0.50.7
0.025

i2 0.335 A

A particular diode, for which n = 1, is found to conduct 5 mA with a junction


voltage of 0.7 V and assumed that vT 25 mV . What is its saturation current I s ?
What current will flow in this diode if the junction voltage is raised to 0.71 V? to 0.8
V? If the junction voltage is lowered to 0.69 V? What change in junction voltage will
increase the diode current by a factor of 10?
Answer:
i I s e v / nvT I s e 0.7 / 0.025 5.10 3 A

I s 5.10 3 e 0.7 / 0.025 3.46.10 15 A


By using table with given data,
v
0.71 V
0.8 V
0.69 V
0.6 V

i
7.46 mA
73.21 mA
3.35 mA
01.65 A

v / 0.025
; and i2 10i1 I s e v2 / 0.025 .
Let i1 I s e 1
v v

2
1
i2
10 e 0.025
i1

Therefore,

76.

v v2 v1 57.56 mA

A half wave rectifier circuit with a R 1 k load operates from 120 V (rms) 60
Hz household supply through a 10 to 1 step-down transformer. It uses a silicon diode
that can be modeled to have a 0.7 V drop for any current.
a.
What is the peak voltage of the rectified output?
b.
For what fraction of the cycle does the diode conduct?
c.
What is the average output voltage?
d.
What is the average current in the load?
Solution:

a. The peak output voltage,


vo 12 2 0.7 16.27 V

b. Conduction begins at,


vo 12 2 sin 0.7
0.7

0.0412 rad
2.364 0 2.364 *
180
12
2

sin 1

Conduction ends at , then


Conduction angle = 2 3.14159 0.0824 3.06 rad
The diode conducts for
3.06
*100 48.7% of the cylce
2

c. The average output voltage,


vo ,avg

1
2

12

d. The average current load,


iD ,avg

vo ,avg
R

2 sin 0.7 d 5.06 V

5.06 mA

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