15EE303

ELECTRON DEVICES & CIRCUITS

STAFF NAME: Dr.R.SENTHIL KUMAR

Mr.K.V.SANTHOSH KUMAR

EVOCATION

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Electronics actual history began with the invention of vacuum diode
by J.A. Fleming, in 1897; and, after that, a vacuum triode was
implemented by Lee De Forest to amplify electrical signals.
Thetransistorera began with the junction transistor invention in 1948.
The use of germanium and silicon semiconductor materials made
theses transistor gain the popularity and wide-acceptance usage in
different electronic circuits.
The years 1958 to 1975 marked the introduction of IC with enlarged
capabilities of over several thousand components on a single chip
such as small-scale integration, medium-large scale and very-large
scale integration ICs.
These ICs were developed with Transistor-transistor logic (TTL),
integrated injection logic (I2L) and emitter coupled logic (ECL)
technologies. Later these digital ICs employed PMOS, NMOS, and
CMOS fabrication design technologies
All these radical changes in all these components led to the
introduction ofmicroprocessorin 1969 by Intel
Soon after, the analog integrated circuits were developed that
introduced an operational amplifier for an analog signal processing.
These analog circuits include analog multipliers, ADC and DAC
converters and analog filters.

Course Objectives
To understand the characteristics, operations, and application of solid state
devices like diode, BJT, FET, MOSFET and various optoelectronic devices.
To analyze the different types of amplifier, oscillator and multivibrator Circuits.
To understand various applications of electronic devices.

Programme Outcomes (POs)

An ability to apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering
fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex
Electrical and Electronics engineering problem.
An ability to use research-based knowledge and research methods including
design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the
information to provide valid conclusions.

Course Outcomes (COs)

Understand the Construction, Operation & characteristics of various electronic
devices.
Analyze and design various amplifier circuits.
Understand and analyze the salient features of oscillators, multivibrators and
power supply circuits.

UNIT-I
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
Construction,
Operation
and
characteristics of Diode, Zener diode,
BJT, FET, MOSFET and UJT-Small signal
model analysis of BJT and FET.

UNIT-II
VOLTAGE AMPLIFIERS
RC-coupled amplifiers - Analysis at low,
medium and high frequencies- DC
amplifiers-problems in DC amplifiers,
BJT Differential amplifier - Differential
and Common mode gain, CMRR, MOS
Differential amplifier- Cascade and
Darlington Amplifiers.

UNIT-III
POWER AND FEED BACK AMPLIFIERS
Amplifiers-Classification, Class A/B/C, Single
ended and Push-pull Configuration, Power
dissipation, output power and Conversion
efficiency, Class AB operation-Tuned amplifiersBasic concepts of feedback amplifiers-Effect of
negative feedback on input and output
resistances, gain, gain stability, distortion and
bandwidth -Voltage and current feedback circuits.

UNIT-IV
OSCILLATOR AND
MULTIVIBRATOR
Oscillators-condition of oscillations, RCphase shift oscillators, Wien bridge &
Hartley oscillators, Colpitt's oscillators
and UJT based saw tooth oscillatorMultivibrators-Bistable, Monostable &
Astable multivibrators.

UNIT-V
POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS AND
OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES
Half wave and full wave rectifier
analysis-Design and Analysis of filter
circuits - Voltage regulator using zener
diode and transistor-Optoelectronic
devices principle and working - photo
diode, photo transistor, solar cell, opto
couplers & LCD.

Reference(s)
Jacob. Millman, Christos C.Halkias, Electronic Devices and Circuits,
3rd Edition ,Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Limited, New Delhi, 2010.
David A. Bell, Electronic Devices and Circuits,5th Edition,Oxford
University Press,2009.
Allen Mottershead, Electronic Devices and Circuits-An Introduction,
Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi, 2003.
N.P.Deshpande, Electronic Devices and Circuits,1st Edition,Tata
McGraw Hill Publishing Limited, New Delhi,2013.
R.L.Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky,Electronic
Circuits , 9th Edition, Pearson/Prentice Hall,,2013.

Devices

and

Thomas L Floyd, Electronic Devices, Prentice Hall of India, New

Delhi, 2011.