NAME : RAHUL SAMANTA

DEP : ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

TOPIC : MOSFET AS A SWITCH
ROLL NO : 33201618002
REG. NO. : 183320110064
SEM : 3rd
YEAR : 2019
What is MOSFET ?

 The MOSFET transistor is a semiconductor device which is

widely used for switching and amplifying electronic
signals in the electronic devices. The MOSFET works by
electronically varying the width of a channel along
which charge carriers flow
 The MOSFET is a four terminal device with source(S), gate
(G), drain (D) and body (B) terminals. The body of the
MOSFET is frequently connected to the source terminal
so making it a three terminal device like field effect
transistor.
The MOSFET functioning mode

 Depletion Mode:
 When there is no voltage on the gate, the channel
shows its maximum conductance. As the voltage on the
gate is either positive or negative, the channel
conductivity decreases.
 Enhancement mode:
 When there is no voltage on the gate the device does
not conduct. More is the voltage on the gate, the better
the device can conduct.
Working Principle of
MOSFET

 The aim of the

MOSFET is to be able
to control the
voltage and current
flow between the
source and drain. It
works almost as a
switch.
MOSFET Characteristics Curves
MOSFET as a Switch
 MOSFET’s make very good electronic switches for
controlling loads and in CMOS digital circuits as they
operate between their cut-off and saturation regions.
 A simple circuit which uses an n-channel enhancement
MOSFET as a switch. Here the drain terminal (D) of the
MOSFET is connected to the supply voltage VS via the
drain resistor RD while its source terminal (S) is grounded.
Further, it has an input voltage Vi applied at its gate
terminal (G) while the output Vo is drawn from its drain.
An example of using the
MOSFET as a switch

 In this circuit
arrangement an
Enhancement-mode
N-channel MOSFET is
being used to switch
a simple lamp “ON”
and “OFF” (could
also be an LED).
Power MOSFET Motor Control

 Because of the extremely high input or gate resistance

that the MOSFET has, its very fast switching speeds and
the ease at which they can be driven makes them ideal
to interface with op-amps or standard logic gates.
However, care must be taken to ensure that the gate-
source input voltage is correctly chosen because when
using the MOSFET as a switch the device must obtain a
low RDS(on) channel resistance in proportion to this input
gate voltage.
 Reference

 1. Electronics Fundamentals and Applications. By D.

Chattopadhyay , P. C. Rakshit
 https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws
 https://www.electrical4u.com
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