ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS

Part I: Diodes—Characteristics of Diodes. Rectifying Circuits and DC Power Supplies. Filter Circuits for Power Supplies. The Diode Clamper and Voltage Doubler. Semiconductor Physics of Diodes. Zener Diodes, Tunnel Diodes and Thermistors. Part II: General Amplifier Characteristics—General Amplifier Characteristics I: Distortion. General Amplifier Characteristics II: Decibels. Part III: Bipolar Transistor Amplifiers—Basic Characteristics of the Transistor. The Common-Base Amplifier. The Common-Emitter Amplifier. Thermal Stability I: Transistor Biasing. Thermal Stability II: Transistor Dissipation. Hybrid Equivalent Circuit for a Transistor. Low-Frequency Response of the Transistor Amplifier. High-Frequency Response of the Transistor Amplifier. Negative Feedback in Translator Amplifiers. Part IV: Oscillators—Transistor Oscillators and Multi-vibrators. Part V: Transistor Power Amplifiers—Transistor Power Amplifiers I: Class A. Transistor Power Amplifiers II: Class B. Part VI: Field Effect Transistors—Field-Effect Transistor Amplifier MOSFETs and Other Applications of FETs. Part VII: Integrated Circuits—Linear Integrated Circuits: Operational Amplifiers. An Introduction to the Fabrication of Integrated Circuits. Non-Linear Integrated Circuits I: Combinational Digital Circuits. Non-Linear Integrated Circuits II: Sequential Digital Circuits. Part VIII: Industrial Devices—Optoelectronic Devices. Thyristors and the Unijunction Transistor. APPENDICES: A—Basic Characteristics of the Triode Amplifier. B—Analysis of Class A Triode Amplifiers. C—Frequency Response of Cascaded Triode Amplifiers. D—Pentode Voltage and Power Amplifiers. E—Phase-Shift Measurement. F—Abbreviated Math Tables. Answers to Odd-numbered Problems. Index.