Semiconductors Book Outline

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• Thesis and Scope of this book (Introduction)
• Before we begin (Preliminary information)
• Interpreting and drawing a circuit
• Engineering notation
• Black-box conventions used throughout the book
• Devices used in this book's examples
• Test equipment
• Tools
• Choosing a correct resistor
• Capacitors
• Logarithms and logarithmic behavior
• Safety
• Diodes
• Diode bias
• Physical diode limitations and imperfections
• Reverse, leakage current
• Datasheets
• Checking a diode with DMM
• Special Insert – Thermal considerations
• Variability of parameters
• Special diodes
• Diode applications
• Diodes for voltage control
• Light Emitting Diode (LED)
• Diode as a Sensor
• Diodes as Solar Cells
• Controllable Diodes
• Diode-type semiconductors DMM test
• MOSFETs (switches)
• Concepts
• Special Insert – ESD Safety First
• Ohmic mode
• Low power supply voltages
• How can we find what level of VGS drive voltage is necessary to conduct a certain level of current?
• MOSFET as a low power switch
• P-Channel MOSFET
• MOSFETs in digital logic
• MOSFET as a high-power switch
• High frequency switching and dynamic effects
• N-channel MOSFET “upside down”
• Additional MOSFET notes and considerations
• JFET (high input resistance amplifier)
• JFET gate diode
• Class-A amplifiers, Quiescent point
• JFET Class A low-power amplifier
• Input and output resistance, bandwidth, impedance
• Further circuit analysis
• Range of permissible IDQ and VDSQ levels
• P-channel JFET
• Further notes and circuits
• BJT (universal transistor)
• BJT drive requirements
• Large signal behavior
• BJT as a switch
• Linear BJT operation
• Improved Class-A BJT biasing
• Emitter follower configuration – biasing consideration
• Small-signal behavior (Subtle effects)
• Practical common-emitter amplifier circuit
• Practical Emitter Follower Amplifier Circuit
• BJT as a switch revisited – three warnings
• PNP BJTs and NPN-PNP stages
• Multiple stages
• Class AB power amplifier
• Additional notes and further reading
• Other electronic components and concepts
• Other semiconductor devices
• Non-linear devices and circuit protection devices
• Integrated Circuits
• Circuit blocks
• Pulse Width Modulation and Motor Control
• Switch Mode Regulation
• H Bridge
• Circuit analysis, Example circuits and projects
• Circuit analysis
• What to do when a circuit does not work
• Power circuits
• Light circuits
• Time circuits
• Audio circuits
• Temperature circuits
• Control circuits
• Solar Projects
• Driving High-Power MOSFETs
• H-Bridge Protection, filtering, and energy storage
• Appendix A Getting a job