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Corse No.
EEE 1203
Electronics I
Text Book
1. Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory
by Robert Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky
2. Microelectronic Circuits
by Sedra/Smith
Introductory Discussion
Topics to be covered:
• Signal and their origins

• Signal processing in electronic system
• Vacuum Tubes
• Semiconductor Devices
• List of Semiconductor Devices
* Lessons in electric circuits: Volume III-Semiconductors

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Signal, their origin and processing in electronic system
Signals:
Signals contain information about a variety of things and activities in our
physical world.
Examples with origin:

Information about the weather is contained in signals that represent the air
temperature, pressure, wind speed, etc.
The voice of a radio announcer reading the news into a microphone provides an
acoustic signal that contains information about world affairs.
To monitor the status of a nuclear reactor, instruments are used to measure a

multitude of relevant parameters, each instrument producing a signal.
Signal processing:
 Processing of the signals need to be in some predetermined manner.
This signal processing is usually performed by electronic systems.
Firstly, the signal must first be converted into an electric signal (a voltage or a
current).
This process is accomplished by devices known as transducers.

Example:
The sound waves generated by a human can be converted into

electric signals using a microphone, which is in effect a pressure
transducer.
Vacuum Tubes:
 Vacuum tubes are also known as electron tubes or tubes
 The historical transition from ”electric” to ”electronic” circuits really began with tubes
 a way of controlling the flow of electrons (current) in a circuit by means of another electric signal (small
voltage for most tubes).
 Tubes, being less complex in their manufacture than semiconductor components, are potentially cheaper to
produce as well
Applications:
 In the fields of high-power and high-speed circuit switching, specialized tubes (hydrogen thyratrons and
krytrons) are able to switch far larger amounts of current, far faster than any semiconductor device designed to
date.
 In high-power microwave transmitter applications, the excellent thermal tolerance of tubes alone secures their
dominance over semiconductors.
Brief History of Vacuum Tubes / Electron tubes
During the period the vacuum tube was undoubtedly the electronic device of interest
1904–1947 and development.
In 1904, the vacuum-tube diode was introduced by J. A. Fleming.
In 1906 Lee De Forest added a third element, called the control grid, to
the vacuum diode, resulting in the first amplifier, the triode
In the early 1930s the four-element tetrode and five-element pentode gained
prominence in the electron-tube industry.
Semiconductor Devices:
 A semiconductor devices are is an electronic components
 They relies on the electronic properties of a semiconductor material

(primarily silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide).
 Semiconductor devices have replaced vacuum tubes in most applications.
 They use electrical conduction in the solid state rather than the gaseous
state or thermionic emission in a vacuum.
 Semiconductor devices are manufactured both as single discrete devices and

as integrated circuit (IC) chips
 The most common semiconductor device in the world is the MOSFET (metal–
oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor), also called the MOS transistor.
Semiconductor Devices:
The semiconductor counterpart to the tube, of course, is the transistors

(BJTs and FETs).
In either cases (BJTs and FETs), a relatively small electric signal controls a
relatively large electric current.
This is the essence of the word ”electronic,” so as to distinguish it from

”electric,”.
List of common Semiconductor Devices:
Two-terminal devices:
Three-terminal devices:
•DIAC •Bipolar transistor
•Diode (rectifier diode) •Darlington transistor
•Laser diode •Field-effect transistor
•Light-emitting diode (LED)
•Insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)
•Silicon-controlled rectifier
•Photocell •Thyristor
•Phototransistor •TRIAC
•PIN diode •Unijunction transistor
•Schottky diode
•Solar cell
Four-terminal devices:
•Tunnel diode
•VCSEL •Hall effect sensor (magnetic field
•Zener diode sensor)
•Zen diode •Photocoupler (Optocoupler)

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Corse No.

• Signal and their origins

* Lessons in electric circuits: Volume III-Semiconductors

Examples with origin:

To monitor the status of a nuclear reactor, instruments are used to measure a

This signal processing is usually performed by electronic systems.

This process is accomplished by devices known as transducers.

The sound waves generated by a human can be converted into

In 1904, the vacuum-tube diode was introduced by J. A. Fleming.

 They relies on the electronic properties of a semiconductor material

 Semiconductor devices have replaced vacuum tubes in most applications.

 Semiconductor devices are manufactured both as single discrete devices and

The semiconductor counterpart to the tube, of course, is the transistors

This is the essence of the word ”electronic,” so as to distinguish it from

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