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Figure 1: Basic NPN common collector circuit (neglecting biasing details).. In electronics, a common collector amplifier (also known as an emitter follower) is one of three basic single-stage bipolar junction transistor (BJT) amplifier topologies, typically used as a voltage buffer.
The remainder of the electrons recombine with holes, the majority carriers in the base, making a current through the base connection to form the base current, I B. As shown in the diagram, the emitter current, I E, is the total transistor current, which is the sum of the other terminal currents, (i.e. I E = I B + I C).
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 ...
One trick is to add a common-gate (current-follower) stage to make a cascode circuit. The current-follower stage presents a load to the common-source stage that is very small, namely the input resistance of the current follower (R L ≈ 1 / g m ≈ V ov / (2I D) ; see common gate). Small R L reduces C M. [2]
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 ...
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.
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.
In a circuit with a three terminal device, such as a transistor, the current–voltage curve of the collector-emitter current depends on the base current. This is depicted on graphs by a series of (I C –V CE) curves at different base currents. A load line drawn on this graph shows how the base current will affect the operating point of the ...