Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750602287 ISBN 13: 9780750602280

Publisher: Newnes, 1991

Diode, Transistor and FET Circuits Manual is a handbook of circuits based on discrete semiconductor components such as diodes, transistors, and FETS. The book also includes diagrams and practical circuits. The book describes basic and special diode characteristics, heat wave-rectifier circuits, transformers, filter capacitors, and rectifier ratings. The text also presents practical applications of associated devices, for example, zeners, varicaps, photodiodes, or LEDs, as well as it describes bipolar transistor characteristics. The transistor can be used in three basic amplifier configurations, such as common-collector, common-emitter, or common-base. Oscillators and multivibrators use transistors as linear amplifying elements or as digital switching elements, respectively. In other practical applications, bipolar transistors are used in audio pre-amp, tone control, and power amplifier applications. For example, the book illustrates the ideal form and location of the volume control where it is fully d.c-isolated from the pre-amplifier's output. The book cites other applications of transistor circuits in a noise limiter, in astable multivibrators, in L-C oscillators, and in lie detectors. This book is suitable for radio, television, and electronics technicians, design and application engineers, and students in electronics or radio communications.

Synopsis:

This book is primarily a manual of circuits based on "discrete" semiconductor components such as diodes, transistors, FETs, and associated devices, and as such, it presents a total of over 340 carefully selected and useful practical circuits, diagrams, graphs and tables. The manual is divided into four sections, and a total of twelve chapters headings. The first chapter deals with ordinary diode and rectifier circuits, and the second with special diodes such as zeners, varicaps, and photo-sensitive and light-emitting types. The second section comprises five chapters (Chapters 3 to 7) and deals with modern bipolar transistors. The third comprises four chapters (chapters 8 to 11) and deals with major types of field-effect transistor (including the JFET, MOSFET and VMOS). The final chapter deals with the unijunction transistor (UJT) and some of its thyristor counterparts (such as the PUT, SUS and SCS). The book is specifically aimed at the practical design engineer, technician, and experimenter, but will also be of interest to the electronics student and the amateur.