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Class AB Power Amplifier
• Crossover distortion can be virtually eliminated by biasing the
complementary output transistors at a small nonzero current.
vI = 0, vO = 0;
vO = vI + VBB/2 - vBEN;
into RL.
proportion as IQ is constant.
Class AB Power Amplifier
• As vBEN raises above the VBB/2, a
i i i
• VT ln N+ VT ln P= 2VT ln Q;
IS IS IS
• or iNiP = IQ2 (2)
emitter follower.
negative.
Class AB Power Amplifier
• The class AB operation is similar to class B, the only difference being
at Q-point both QN and QP conduct a small current.
• As the signal grows positive, QN takes over and for the negative half
QP dominates.
• i.e. for vI = 0, both QN and QP conduct equally. With vI > or < 0 the
scene changes.
• Since IQ is usually much smaller than the peak load current, the
A class AB output stage utilizing diodes for biasing. If the junction area of the output
devices, QN and QP, is n times that of the biasing devices D1 and D2, and a quiescent
current IQ = nIBIAS flows in the output devices.
Biasing using Diodes
• Figure shows class AB circuit with bias voltage VBB.
• Constant current IBIAS is passed through pair of diodes D1 and D2.
• In circuits that supply large amounts of power, the output transistors are
large-geometry devices.
• Biasing diodes, however, need not be large.
• Thus the quiescent current IQ established in QN and QP will be IQ = nIBIAS,
• where n is the ratio of the emitter–junction area of the output devices to
the junction area of the biasing diodes.
Biasing using Diodes