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This document contains the course details and problems for a tutorial on diodes and transistors. There are several circuit diagrams and questions about finding voltages, currents, and waveforms using ideal and constant-drop diodes. Additional problems involve designing limiting circuits using diodes, sketching output waveforms, and calculating required amplitudes. The second part covers problems involving bipolar junction transistors, including calculating collector currents, determining saturation, and finding the necessary input voltage amplitude to ensure saturation.

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This document contains the course details and problems for a tutorial on diodes and transistors. There are several circuit diagrams and questions about finding voltages, currents, and waveforms using ideal and constant-drop diodes. Additional problems involve designing limiting circuits using diodes, sketching output waveforms, and calculating required amplitudes. The second part covers problems involving bipolar junction transistors, including calculating collector currents, determining saturation, and finding the necessary input voltage amplitude to ensure saturation.

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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Faculty of Engineering
University of Sri Jayewardenepura

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Laboratory

Course Electronics
Course Code EE1302
Tutorial 1 Diodes & Transistors

I. Diodes
(1) (i) circuits shown in Fig. 1 using ideal diodes, find the values of the voltages and currents
indicated.

Figure 1

(ii) Assuming that the diodes in the circuits of Fig.2 are ideal, utilize Thevenin’s theorem to
simplify the circuits and thus find the values of the labeled currents and voltages.

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Figure 2

(iii) Solve the above problems using the constant drop (0.7V) diode mode.

(2)(i) Plot the transfer characteristic of the circuit in Fig.3 by evaluating VI corresponding to
V0 = 0.5 V,0.6 V, 0.7 V, 0.8 V, 0 V, −0.5 V, −0.6 V, −0.7 V, and −0.8 V. Assume that the
diodes have 0.7-V drops at 1-mA currents. Characterize the circuit as a hard or soft limiter.
What is the value of K? Estimate L+ and L−.

Figure 3

(ii) A clamped capacitor using an ideal diode with cathode grounded is supplied with a sine
wave of 10-V rms. What is the average (dc) value of the resulting output?

(3)(i) The circuit in Fig. 4 implements a complementary- output rectifier. Sketch and clearly
label the waveforms of and Assume a 0.7-V drop across each conducting diode. If the
magnitude of the average of each output is to be 15 V, find the required amplitude of the sine
wave across the entire secondary winding. What is the PIV of each diode?

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Figure 4

(4) (i) Design a two-sided limiting circuit using a resistor, two diodes, and two power
supplies to feed a 1kΩ load with nominal limiting levels of ±3 V. Use diodes modeled by a
constant 0.7 V. In the nonlimiting region, the voltage gain should be at least 0.95 V/V
(ii) For the circuit in Fig.5, each utilizing an ideal diode (or diodes), sketch the output for the
input shown in Figure 6. Label the most positive and most negative output levels. Assume
CR >> T.

Figure 5

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Figure 6

II. Transistors
1. Problem 3.1
2. Problem 3.4
3. Problem 3.5
4. Problem 3.12
5. Problem 3.84
6. Find the collector current of transistor Q2 (Si BJTs with β1 = 100 and β2 = 50 ).

Figure 7
7. Determine whether or not the transistor in figure 8 is in saturation. Assume VCE(sat) =
0.2 V.

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Figure 8

8. The LED in Figure 9 requires 30 mA to emit a sufficient level of light. Therefore, the
collector current should be approximately 30 mA. For the following circuit values,
determine the amplitude of the square wave input voltage necessary to make sure that
the transistor saturates. Use double the minimum value of base current as a safety
margin to ensure saturation. VCC = 9 V, VCE(sat) = 0.3 V, RC = 270 , RB = 3.3 k,
and DC = 50.

Figure 9

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