Experiment # 14

Title:

To Study The Common Base Characteristics

Of The NPN Transistor:
Theory:
In electronics, a common-base (also known as grounded-base)
amplifier is one of three basic single-stage bipolar junction transistor (BJT) amplifier
topologies, typically used as a current buffer or voltage amplifier. In this circuit the
emitter terminal of the transistor serves as the input, the collector the output, and the
base is common to both (for example, it may be tied to ground reference or a power
supply rail), hence its name. The analogous field-effect transistor circuit is the
common-gate amplifier.

Apparatus:

Transistor

Different Resistances 22 K & 4.7K

Dual DC Power Suppl

DMM

Potentiometer

Circuit Diagram:

Procedure:

I made the circuit diagram and made the connections according to it.
I took the reading and filled the table.
I made the graph according to it.

Table :
For Input Values:

For IE = 1mA
Sr.
No
.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

VCB

VCC

V
-.65
-.50
0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0

V
0.6
0.4
0.01
5.1
10.1
15.1
20.2

IE=
(VCC-VCB)/RC
uA

For IE = 1.5mA
VCB

VCC

V
-.65
-.50
0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0

V
0.6
0.4
0.01
5.1
10.1
15.1
20.2

Table :
For Output Values

IE=
(VCC-VCB)/RC
uA

For IE = 2mA
VCB

VCC

V
-.65
-.50
0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0

V
0.6
0.4
0.01
5.1
10.1
15.1
20.2

IE=
(VCC-VCB)/RC
uA

For VCB = 5 V
Sr.
N
o.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

VBE

VEE

V
0
0.25
0.38
0.51
0.54
0.56
0.57
0.58
0.59
0.59
0.60
0.62
0.63
0.64
0.65
0.66

V
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
8
13
19
25
30

IE=
(VCC-VCB)/RC
uA
0
-2.08
8.3
3.7
19.1
19.1
59.5
79.8
100.2
121.1
141
307
514
763
1012
1220

For VCB = 15 V
VBE

VEE

V
0
0.25
0.38
0.51
0.54
0.56
0.57
0.58
0.59
0.59
0.60
0.62
0.63
0.64
0.65
0.66

V
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
8
13
19
25
30

IE=
(VCC-VCB)/RC
uA
0
-2.08
8.3
3.7
19.1
19.1
59.5
79.8
100.2
121.1
141
307
514
763
1012
1220

For VCB = 25 V
VBE

VEE

V
0
0.25
0.38
0.51
0.54
0.56
0.57
0.58
0.59
0.59
0.60
0.62
0.63
0.64
0.65
0.66

V
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
8
13
19
25
30

IE=
(VCC-VCB)/RC
uA
0
-2.08
8.3
3.7
19.1
19.1
59.5
79.8
100.2
121.1
141
307
514
763
1012
1220

Circuit

Application:
This arrangement is not very common in low-frequency circuits, where it
is usually employed for amplifiers that require an unusually low input impedance, for
example to act as a preamplifier for moving-coil microphones.
However, it is popular in high-frequency amplifiers, for example for VHF
and UHF, because its input capacitance does not suffer from the Miller effect, which
degrades the bandwidth of the common-emitter configuration, and because of the
relatively high isolation between the input and output.

This configuration is also useful as a current buffer since it has a current

gain of approximately unity . Often a common base is used in this manner, preceded
by a common-emitter stage. The combination of these two form the cascode
configuration, which possesses several of the benefits of each configuration, such as
high input impedance and isolatio