BEE304 ELECTRON DEVICES

OBJECTIVE : To educate on the construction and working of common electronic devices and to prepare for application areas.

1. ELECTRON BALLISTICS:

Motion of charged particles in Electric, Magnetic and combined Electric and Magnetic fields - Cathode Ray Tubes.

2. SEMI CONDUCTORS:

Charge carriers - electrons and holes in intrinsic and extrinsic semi conductors - Drift and Diffusion currents - continuity equation - Hall effect - PN junction - current equation -junction capacitance- breakdown characteristics- Metal oxide varistor, Zener, tunnel, Schottky diodes.

3. BIPOLAR JUNCTION TRANSISTORS:

Current components- CB, CE, CC configurations- Input-Output characteristics- h-parameters- Low frequency and high frequency equivalent circuits- power transistors and SCRs.

4. FET, UJT and OPTO-ELECTRONIC DEVICES:

Theory and characteristics of JFET and MOSFET- low frequency and high frequency equivalent circuits- theory and characteristics of UJT, Photo diodes and LEDs.

5. RECTIFIERS AND POWER SUPPLIES:

Single-phase rectifiers and Fourier series analysis- filter circuits - Design of Zener and series voltage regulators- switched mode power supplies.