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A small change to the input current results in much larger change in the output current supplied to the output load. One aspect of buffer action is transformation of impedances. For example, the Thévenin resistance of a combination of a voltage follower driven by a voltage source with high Thévenin resistance is reduced to only the output ...
A schematic diagram of the Ebers-Moll models of a PNP BJT. The base, collector and emitter currents are I B, I C and I E, the common-base forward and reverse current gains are α F and α R, and the collector and emitter diode currents are I CD and I ED. Date: 4 August 2010, 05:26 (UTC) Source: Ebers-Moll_Model_PNP.PNG; Author
A diode-connected transistor is made by connecting the base and collector of a BJT; the drain and source of a JFET [1] the gate and drain of a MOSFET; Diode-connected transistors are used in current mirrors to provide a voltage drop that tracks that of the other transistor as temperature changes. [2] They also have very low reverse leakage ...
The junction version known as the bipolar junction transistor (BJT), invented by Shockley in 1948, [12] was for three decades the device of choice in the design of discrete and integrated circuits. Nowadays, the use of the BJT has declined in favor of CMOS technology in the design of digital integrated circuits.
Full hybrid-pi model. The full model introduces the virtual terminal, B′, so that the base spreading resistance, r bb, (the bulk resistance between the base contact and the active region of the base under the emitter) and r b′e (representing the base current required to make up for recombination of minority carriers in the base region) can be represented separately.
ECL uses an overdriven bipolar junction transistor (BJT) differential amplifier with single-ended input and limited emitter current to avoid the saturated (fully on) region of operation and the resulting slow turn-off behavior. [2] As the current is steered between two legs of an emitter-coupled pair, ECL is sometimes called current-steering ...
For a current buffer, if the current is transferred unchanged (the current gain β i is 1), the amplifier is again a unity gain buffer; this time known as a current follower because the output current follows or tracks the input current. As an example, consider a Norton source (current I A, parallel resistance R A) driving a resistor load R L.
A translinear circuit is a circuit that carries out its function using the translinear principle. These are current-mode circuits that can be made using transistors that obey an exponential current-voltage characteristic—this includes bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and CMOS transistors in weak inversion.