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PRINCIPLES OF

TRANSISTOR CIRCUITS

Introduction to the Design of Amplifiers, Receivers

and other Circuits

S. \V. Amos, n.sc. (no~s.),

A.M.I.E.E.

Engineering Training Department, British Broadcasting Corporation

?

SECOND

EDITION

NEW YORK ? JOHN F. RIDER PUBLISHER, INC.

a division of HAYDEN' PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC.

LONDON ? ILIFFE BOOKS LTD.

First Published

1959

Second Edition ? S. W. Amos

1961

Published for" Wireless World" by Iliffe Books Limited,

Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.1.

Published in the U.S.A. by John F. Rider Publisher, Inc.,

116 \Vest 14th Street, New York 11, )l.Y.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks are due to the Editor of Mullard Technical Communications

for permission to use material from the following two articles:

"D.C. Stabilisation of Junction Transistors" by L. B. Johnson and

Miss P. Vermes, Mullard Technical Communications, Vol. 3, No. 23.

April 1957, pp. 68-96.

"High-frequency Amplification using Junction Transistors" by

L. E. Jansson, Mullard Technical Communications, Vol. 3, No. 26.

October 1957, pp. 174-187.

Thanks are also due to the Editor of Proceedings of the Institution

of Electrical Engineers for permission to use material from the paper

"Transistor Stages for Wide-band Amplifiers" by G. B. B.

Chaplin, C. J. N. Candy and A. J. Cole. Vol. 16. Part B

Supplement No. 16 International Convention on Transistors and

Associated Semiconductor Devices.

The author thanks Mullard Limited for much useful information

on photo-diodes and photo-transistors.

The author would also like to acknowledge the help received from

The General Electric Company who provided valuable information on voltage-reference diodes and drift transistors.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

V

Preface to Second Edition

ix

Preface to First Edition

X

Semiconductors and Junction Diodes

l

2

Basic Principles of Junction Transistors

19

3

Common-base Amplifiers

37

4

Common-emitter Amplifiers

53

5

Common-collector Amplifiers

67

6

Bias Stabilisation

78

7

Small-signal A.F. Amplifiers

94

8

I.F. Amplifiers

106

9

Pulse Amplifiers

126

10

Large-signal A.F. Amplifiers

136

11

A.M. and F.M. Receivers

150

12

Multivibrators

171

13

Further Applications of Junction Diodes and

Transistors

185

Further Semiconductor Devices

198

Index

207

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