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What is the relation between Ic and IB?
Where: “Ic” is the current flowing into the collector terminal, “Ib” is the current flowing into the base terminal and “Ie” is the current flowing out of the emitter terminal.
What is the reason for shifting of curves for change in VCE in the input characteristics?
The increase in VCE causes increase in reverse bias to C-B junction. This causes the depletion region to widen and penetrate into the base region more reducing effective base width. This results in less base current to flow and hence increase in VCE causes the characteristics to shift to the right as shown in Fig. 5.
What is the importance of VCE in a transistor?
The transistor parameter “Vce” signifies the voltage measured between the collector and emitter, which is extremely important because the voltage between the collector and the emitter is the output of the transistor.
What is importance of VCE?
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How is the IC of a transistor affected by VCE?
The transistor is said to be ‘saturated’. The values of Ic for different values of Ib are ‘more or less’ horizontal showing that Vce is not having a major effect. From the table given for this transistor you can see that the current gain (hfe) is somewhere between about 30 and 70.
What is the output resistance of a common emitter?
Here for common emitter configuration output current is Ic and output voltage is Vcb. So, for common emitter connection, output resistance ( Ro) = change in Vce / change in Ic. As we see above in points of output characteristics, the output resistance of a circuit is high. In this connection, output resistance is in a range between 50 KΩ.
What happens to the IC when you change VCE?
At the saturation region, the Ic still change when you change Vce, that’s the output resistance effect. And this is with Ib held constant. That has nothing to do with load line. At Vce between 0V to the saturation region, the curve is non linear and output resistance really don’t mean a whole lot.
What are the characteristics of a common emitter?
Output characteristics is a graphical representation of output current and output voltage. For common emitter output characteristics, it curves between collector current (Ic) and collector-base voltage (Vcb) at a constant base current (Ib). You can see the output characteristics curves above.