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Department of Electrical Engineering: Riphah College of Science & Technology Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences

1. The document describes an experiment to analyze the small signal parameters of a common-collector amplifier using a BJT. 2. Key components of the circuit include a transistor, resistors, capacitors, power supply, function generator and oscilloscope. 3. The experiment involves measuring DC voltages and currents to determine biasing, then applying a small AC signal to measure voltage gain which is expected to be less than 1 and in phase with the input.

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Department of Electrical Engineering: Riphah College of Science & Technology Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences

1. The document describes an experiment to analyze the small signal parameters of a common-collector amplifier using a BJT. 2. Key components of the circuit include a transistor, resistors, capacitors, power supply, function generator and oscilloscope. 3. The experiment involves measuring DC voltages and currents to determine biasing, then applying a small AC signal to measure voltage gain which is expected to be less than 1 and in phase with the input.

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Department of Electrical Engineering

Riphah College of Science & Technology


Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Riphah International University, Lahore

Program: B.Sc. Electrical Engineering Technology Semester: II


Subject ETL-102 Electronics Date: ……………….

Experiment 20: To analyze the small signal parameters of a common–


collector amplifier.

Student Name: ……………………………………………………………

Lab Performance

No. Title Marks Obtained


Marks
1 Ability to conduct experiment 5
2 Data Analysis & Interpretation 5

Lab Reports

No. Title Marks Obtained


Marks
1 Organization / Structure 5
2 Calculations and Data Presentation 5

Remarks (if any): ………………………………….

Name & Signature of faculty: ……………………………


Apparatus
i. Digital Multimeter
ii. Resistors
iii. Capacitors
iv. Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT)
v. Power supply
vi. Function Generator
vii. Oscilloscope.

Theory
In a common collector configuration, also typically known as emitter follower, is used
primarily as an impedance buffer stage to prevent a low impedance load from loading a
stage with relatively high output impedance. The emitter follower has a high input
impedance and low output impedance, which is almost equal to the emitter resistance.
The voltage gain of the emitter follower is less than one, but it has reasonably high current
gain. Unlike the common emitter amplifier, the output voltage of the common collector
amplifier is in phase with the input voltage.
Figure 4 below shows the transistor configured as a common collector amplifier. In this
diagram, VI is the a.c. signal source. VCC is a power supply, which provides the transistor
with the necessary power to amplify the a.c. signal. Resistor RB is used to establish the
correct voltage at the base of the transistor.
The capacitors C1 and C2 serve to isolate the signal source and load from the voltage
source VCC. (The capacitors are called “blocking capacitors” or “coupling capacitors”
since they block the dc. voltage but act like a short to the ac. signal.)
Good transistor amplifiers essentially have the following parameters high gain, high input
impedance, high band width, high slew rate, high linearity, high efficiency, high stability
etc.
In Common Collector transistor configuration, we use collector terminal as common for
both input and output signals. This configuration is also known as emitter follower
configuration because the emitter voltage follows the base voltage. The emitter follower
configuration is mostly used as a voltage buffer.
In many ways the common collector configuration (CC) is the reverse of the common
emitter (CE) configuration as the connected load resistor is changed from the collector
terminal for RC to the emitter terminal for RE.
The common collector or grounded collector configuration is commonly used where a
high impedance input source needs to be connected to a low impedance output load
requiring a high current gain. Consider the common collector amplifier circuit below.
Circuit Connections

Figure 1: Common Collector amplifier

Procedure

DC analysis
1. Write the circuit as shown in Figure 1.
2. After you have checked all connections, apply 12V supply voltage
3. With a multimeter, individually measure the transistor dc base, emitter and
collector voltages and currents, record you results in table 1. Find β. Make sure
your transistor is biased in the active mode for amplifier application.

Parameters Measured Value Theoretical Value


VB
VE
VC
IB
IE
IC
Table 1
Small Signal Analysis
1. Apply a sine wave (2v, 1 kHz) and measure the output voltage using the double
beam oscilloscope. Display both input and output signals on the oscilloscope.
Measure the output voltage and compute the voltage gain.
2. You must observe that the output signal lever (Vout) is slightly lower than the
input signal level (VS) . In addition, Vout is in phase with the input. Those points
are two major characteristics of a common – collector amplifier.

RL Vs(p-p) Vout(p-p) Measured


Gain
10K 2V
Without 2V

Table 2

Small signal model and its expressions


Conclusions
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