Semiconductors Book Outline
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Outline
- 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