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Fet Amplifier

The document discusses FET amplifiers. It describes three basic FET circuit configurations: common source, common drain, and common gate. It then focuses on the common source amplifier. It explains that the common source amplifier provides voltage gain that is equal to the negative product of the drain resistance and the sum of the drain and source resistances. It states the input impedance of a common source amplifier is equal to the gate resistance. The output impedance is approximately equal to the drain resistance.

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Fet Amplifier

The document discusses FET amplifiers. It describes three basic FET circuit configurations: common source, common drain, and common gate. It then focuses on the common source amplifier. It explains that the common source amplifier provides voltage gain that is equal to the negative product of the drain resistance and the sum of the drain and source resistances. It states the input impedance of a common source amplifier is equal to the gate resistance. The output impedance is approximately equal to the drain resistance.

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FET AMPLIFIER

FET AMPLIFIER
INTRODUCTION
Field Effect Transistor (FET) amplifiers provide an excellent voltage gain and high input
impedence. Because of high input impedence and other characteristics of JFETs they are
preferred over BJTs for certain types of applications.
There are 3 basic FET circuit configurations:
i)Common Source
ii)Common Drain
iii)Common Gain
Similar to BJT CE,CC and CB circuits, only difference is in BJT large output collector current is
controlled by small input base current whereas FET controls output current by means of small
input voltage. In both the cases output current is controlled variable.
FET amplifier circuits use voltage controlled nature of the JFET. In Pinch off region, ID depends
only on VGS.
Common Source (CS) Amplifier

Fig. 7.1 (a) CS Amplifier (b) Small-signal equivalent circuit


A simple Common Source amplifier is shown in Fig (a) and associated small signal
equivalent circuit using voltage-source model of FET is shown in Fig (b)

Voltage Gain
Source resistance (RS) is used to set the Q-Point but is bypassed by CS for mid-frequency
operation. From the small signal equivalent circuit, the output voltage
VO = -RDµVgs(RD + rd)

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FET AMPLIFIER

Where Vgs = Vi , the input voltage,


Hence, the voltage gain,
AV = VO / Vi = -RDµ(RD + rd)
Input Impedence
From Fig (b) Input Impedence is
Zi = RG
For voltage divider bias as in CE Amplifiers of BJT
RG = R1 ║ R 2
Output Impedance
Output impedance is the impedance measured at the output terminals with the input voltage VI =
0
From the Fig. (b) when the input voltage Vi = 0, Vgs = 0 and hence
µ Vgs = 0
The equivalent circuit for calculating output impedence is given in Fig..
Output impedence Zo = rd ║ RD
Normally rd will be far greater than RD . Hence Zo ≈ RD

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