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Transistor as a Rectifier

General Physics 2013-04-23 v2

Abstract

Transistor is a three terminal semiconductor device normally used as an amplifier or as a switch. Here the alternating current (a.c) rectifying property of the transistor is considered. The ordinary silicon diode exhibits a voltage drop of ~0.6V across its terminals. In this article it is shown that the transistor can be used to build a diode or rectify low current a.c (~mA) with a voltage drop of ~0.03V. This voltage is ~20 times smaller than the silicon diode. This article gives the half-wave and full-wave transistor rectifier configurations along with some applications to justify their usefulness.

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@article{arxiv.1205.4604,
  title  = {Transistor as a Rectifier},
  author = {Raju Baddi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4604},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

7 pages, 7 figures

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