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Principles of Analog Electronics
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Principles of Analog Electronics

by Giovanni Saggio
January 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
567 pages
23h 13m
English
CRC Press
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Diode Circuits
In this chapter, we will analyze the rst electronic circuits, in particular (but not
exclusively) based on diodes as semiconductor devices. Their function is to pro-
cess a signal, that is, a time-varying electronic quantity (voltage, current, etc.) to
which information is associated.
Diode applications include rectication (Sections 9.1 and 9.2), voltage multipli-
cation (Section9.3), and wave shaping (Sections 9.4 and 9.5) of the signal.
9.1 RECTIFIERS
Rectiers are circuits that convert an alternating (including both signs) input signal
to an unidirectional output signal (i.e., of a unique sign). So having an AC sinusoi-
da
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ISBN: 9781466582026