Exercise Number: 7

Title of the Experiment: DARLINGTON EMITTER FOLLOWER

OBJECTIVE (AIM) OF THE EXPERIMENT

To design and obtain the frequency response characteristics of Darlington pair
amplifier byhardware implementation.

FACILITIES REQUIRED AND PROCEDURE

a) FACILITIES REQUIRED TO DO THE EXPERIMENT:

S.NO APPARATUS SPECIFICATION QUANTITY

1. Power supply (0-30V) 1
2. CRO 1
3. Resistor 4.9KΩ, 1.6MΩ 3
4. Capacitor 0.45nF 2
5 Transistor BC107 2
Connecting wires
6. and probes - Req.

b) THEORY:
Darlington transistor (often called a Darlington pair) is a compound structure
consisting of two bipolar transistors (either integrated or separated devices) connected
in such a way that the current amplified by the first transistor is amplified further by
the second one. This configuration gives a much higher common/emitter current gain
than each transistor taken separately and, in the case of integrated devices, can take
less space than two individual transistors because they can use a shared collector.
Integrated Darlington pairs come packaged singly in transistor-like packages or as an
array of devices (usually eight) in an integrated circuit.

c) PROCEDURE:

 Hook up the circuit as shown in the circuit diagram.

 Switch on the power supply.
 Set the input trigger using trigger pulse generator.
 Observe the output waveform in CRO.

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d) CIRCUIT DIAGRAM:

e) MODEL GRAPH:

f) Tabulation:
S.NO FREQUENCY(Hz) VOLTAGE(Vo) GAIN GAIN (in dB)

Result:Thus the Darlington amplifier is designed and constructed using transistor and
itsoutput waveform is plotted.

Pre lab Questions:

1. Mention the advantages of Darlington amplifier.
2. What is the main function of a Darlington amplifier?
3. What is the input impedance of Darlington pair amplifier?

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Post lab Questions:
1. Why do you need more than one stage of amplifiers in practical circuits?
2. What is the effect of cascading on gain and bandwidth?
3. What happens to the 3dB frequencies if the number of stages of amplifiers increases?
4. Why we use a logarithmic scale to denote voltage or power gains, instead of using the
simpler linear scale?
5. What is loading effect in multistage amplifiers?

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