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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 rectication (Sections 9.1 and 9.2), voltage multipli-
cation (Section9.3), and wave shaping (Sections 9.4 and 9.5) of the signal.
9.1 RECTIFIERS
Rectiers 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-
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