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- From: jasa@dalton.inesc.pt (Jose Antonio Soares Augusto)
- Subject: Re: Grounded Emitter Amplifier Query
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:45:15 GMT
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- You forgot something in yuour analysis: THE SATURATION CURRENT Is IS
- TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT. I have my copy of H&H (1st ed.) at home but I
- checked in Sedra&Smith "Micr. Circuits" (4th ed.), page 126 where is
- said that Is doubles for each 5 C degree rise in temperature.
-
- Moreover, the change in Vbe (-2.1mV/degC) is supposed to occur at
- CONSTANT emitter current, which is not the case. In the Common
- emitter-grounded amplifier you have
-
- Vbe=R_2 V_CC / (R_1 + R_2)
-
- supposing that I_B<< than the current in the resistors. Now you have
-
- I_C=I_S exp(Vbe/Vt) (I_S and Vt known at 300 K)
-
- if at 300 K you increase the temperature to, lets say, 305 K, the
- value of Vt increases 1.67% relative to the 300 K value. However,
- I_S DOUBLES (according to Sedra&Smith) and you have:
-
- I_C = 2 I_S exp(Vbe/1.0167 Vt) (I_S and Vt are the 300 K value)
-
- The Vbe is CONSTANTLY BIASED if Ib << than the current in the
- resistors and so you notice that, considering at 300 K that Vbe=0.65 V
- and that Vt=25mV
-
- I_C (305 K) / I_C (300 K) = 1.3
-
- Raising in fact the Ic current. As you have seen, the key facts are
- the large increase in Is and the fact that the Vbe value remains
- approximately constant.
-
-
- J. Augusto
-
-