Electronics 1
S K Palit
3 points * 26 lecture hours, 13 laboratory hours * First semester * Caulfield * Prerequisites: ENC1202 * Corequisites: MAC2901
Objectives Knowledge of solid state devices, characteristics and circuit applications.
Synopsis Semiconductors: crystalline solids and energy bands, thermal excitation, charge generation and recombination, doping concentrations, diffusion and drift, current flow, contact potential, pn junction characteristics. Two-terminal devices: semiconductor diodes and models. Varactor diodes, tunnel diodes, photodiodes, light emitting diodes, PIN diodes, Schottky diodes, photodiodes. Clipping circuits, clamping circuits. Rectifying diodes, zener diodes, power supplies. Three-terminal devices: construction, operation, dc biasing and characteristics of bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and field effect transistors (FETs).
Assessment Examination (3 hours): 70% * Laboratory work: 30%
Prescribed texts
Boylestad R and Nashelsky L Electronic devices and circuit theory 5th edn, Prentice-Hall, 1992
Recommended texts
Sedra A S and Smith K C Microelectric circuits Saunders, 1991
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