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PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

1. I NT RO DU CT IO N
Communication means transmission of information. Everyone experiences the need to impart or recieve information
continuously in the surrounding and for this , we speak, listen,send message by a messenger, use coded signalling
methods through smoke or flags or beating of drum etc. and these days we are using telephones, TV, radio,
satellite communication etc. The aim of this chapter is to introduce the concepts of communication namely
the mode of communication, the need for modulation, production and detection of amplitude modulation.
Elements of a Communication System :
Every communication system has three essential elements-
(i) transmitter (ii) medium/channel (iii) receiver

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Information Message Transmitter Transmitted Channel

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Received Message User of
Receiver
source signal signal signal signal information

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Transmitter converts the message signal into an electric signal and transmits through channel. The receiver

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receives the transmitted signal and reconstructs the original message signal to the end user. There are two
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basic modes of communication: (i) point-to-point and (ii) broadcast.
In point-to-point communication mode, communication takes place over a link between a single transmitter
and a receiver as in telephony. In the broadcase mode, there are a large number of receivers corresponding
to a single transmitter. Radio and television are most common examples of braoadcast mode of communication.
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However the communication system can be classified as follows :

Types of Communication Systems

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On the basis of nature of On the basis of signal On the basis of On the basis of type
Information transmitted transmission Channel of modulation
(1) Speech Transmission (1) Analog (1) Line communication (1) Continuous wave
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(Radio) (2) Digital (a) Two wire Transmission modulation

(2) Picture Transmission line (a) Amplitude
(TV) (b) Coaxial cable (b) Frequency
(3) Fascimile Transmission (c) Optical fibre (c) phase
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(FAX) (2) Space communication (2) Pulse Modulation

(4) Data Transmission (a) PAM PPM
(Internet)
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(b) PTM

(c) PCM PWM

Basic terminology Used in Electronic Communication systems :

(i) Transducer. Transducer is the device that converts one form of energy into another. Microphone, photo
detectors and piezoelectric sensors are types of transducer. They convert information into electrical signal.
(ii) Signal Signal is the information converted in electrical form. Signals can be analog or digital. Sound
and picture signals inTV are analog.
It is defined as a single–valued function of time which has a unique value at every instant of time.
(1) Analog Signal :–
A continuously varying signal (Voltage or Current) is called an analog signal. A decimal number with system
base 10 is used to deal with analog signal.

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(2) Digital Signal :–

A signal that can have only discrete stepwise values is called a digital signal. A binary number system with
base 2 is used to deal with digital signals.

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(iii) Noise : There are unwanted signals that tend to disturb the transmission and processing of message
signals. The source of noise can be inside or outside the system.
(iv) Transmitter : A transmitter processes the incoming message signal to make it suitable for trans-mission

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through a channel and subsequent reception.
(v) Receiver : A receiver extracts the desired message signals from the received signals at the channel output.

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(vi) Attenuation : It is the loss of strength of a signals while propagating through a medium. It is like damping
of oscillations.
(vii) Amplification : It is the process of increasing the amplitude (and therefore the strength) of a signal

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using an electronic circuit called the amplifier. Amplification is absolutely necessary to compensate for the
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attenuation of the signal in communication systems.
(viii) Range : It is the largest distance between the source and the destination upto which the signal gets
received with sufficient strength.
(ix) Bandwidth : It is the frequency range over which an equipment operates or the portion of the spectrum
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occupied by the signal.

(x) Modulation : The original low frequency message/information signal connot be transmitted to long distances.
So, at the transmitter end, information contained in the low frequency message signal is superimposed on
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a high frequency wave, which acts as a carrier of the information. This process is known as modulation.
(xi) Demodulation : The process of retrieval of original information from the carrier wave at the receiver
end is termed as demodulation. This process is the reverse of modulation.
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(xii) Repeater : A repeater acts as a receiver and a transmitter. A repeater picks up the signal which is
comming from the transmitter, amplifies and retransmits it with a change in carrier frequency. Repeaters
are necessary to extend the range of a communication system as shown in figure A communication satellite
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is basically a repeater station in space.

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Use of repeater station to increase the

range of communication
BANDWIDTH
Bandwidth of signals :
Different signals used in a comminication system such as voice, music, picture, computer data etc. all have
different ranges of frequency. The difference of maximum and minimum frequency in the range of each signal
is called bandwidth of that signal.
Bandwidth can be of message signal as well as of transmission medium.
(i) Bandwidth for analog signals
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Bandwdith for some analog sinals are listed below :

Signal Frequency range Bandwidth

required
Speech 300-3100 Hz 3100-300
=2800 Hz
Music High frequencies produced 20 kHz
by musical instrument
Audible range =20 Hz - 20 kHz
Picture - 4.2 MHz
TV Contains both 6 MHz
voice and picture

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(ii) Bandwidth for digital signal

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Basically digital signals are rectanglar waves and these can be splitted into a superposition of sinusoidal waves
of frequencies 0, 20, 30, 40, n 0, where n is an integer extending to infinity. This implies that the infinite
band width is required to reproduce the rectangular waves. However, for practical purposes, higher harmonics

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are neglected for limiting the bandwidth
Ba nd w idt h of Tra nsmission Medium
Different types of transmission media offer different band width in which some of are listed below

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S er vice Fr eq u en cy r a ng e R em a r k s

W ire N orm a lly

750 MHz
1 (m ost com m on : op e ra te d be low
(B a nd width)
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Coa x ia l Ca ble ) 1 8 G Hz

Fre e sp a ce Fe w hundre d k Hz to
2
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(i) S ta nda rd AM
5 4 0 k Hz -1 6 0 0 k Hz
broa dca st

(ii) FM 8 8 -1 0 8 M H z
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V H F (V e ry)
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(iii) Te le vision
1 7 4 -2 1 6 M Hz U HF (U ltra
4 2 0 -8 9 0 M Hz hig ht
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M obile to ba se
(iv) Ce llula r
8 9 6 -9 0 1 M Hz S ta tion
m obile
8 4 0 -9 3 5 M Hz B a se sta tion to
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(v) S a te llite 5 .9 2 5 -6 .4 2 5 G Hz U p link ing
Com m unica tion 3 .7 - 4 .2 G H z D ownlink ing

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Op tica l 1 THz-1 0 0 0 THz op tica l fibre
3 com m unica tion (m icrowa ve s- offe rs
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Propagat ion of Electromagnet ic Wave s :

In case of radio waves communication, an antenna at the transmitter radiates the electromagnetic waves
(em waves). The em waves travel through the space and reach the receiving antenna at the other end. As
the em wave travels away from the transmitter, their strength keeps on decreasing. Many factors influence
the propagation of em waves including the path they follow. The composition of the earth's atmosphere
also plays a vital role in the propagation of em waves, as summarised below.

Table 4 L ayer s of atmosphere a nd t heir i nteract ion w it h t he propagat i ng em wave s

Atmospheric Height over earth's Exists during Frequencies most

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stratum (layer) surface (approx) likely affected
1. Troposphere 10 km Day and night VHF (upto several GHz)
2. Ionosphere

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(i) D (part of 65-75 km Day only Reflects LF, absorbs MF &
stratosphere) HF to some degree
(ii) E (part of 100 km Day only Helps surface waves,
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(iii) F1 (Part of 170-190 km Daytime, merges Partially absorbs HF waves
Mesosphere) with F2 at night yet allowing them to reach F2
(iv) F2 300 km at night, Day and night Efficiently reflects HF waves
(Thermosphere) 250-400 km
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Ground Wave Propagat ion :
(a) The radio waves which travel through atmosphere following the surface of earth are known as ground waves
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or surface waves and their propagation is called ground wave propagation or surface wave propagation.
(b) The ground wave transmission becomes weaker with increase in frequency because more absorption of ground
waves takes place at higher frequency during propagation through atmosphere.
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(c) The ground wave propagation is suitabel for low and medium frequency i.e. upto 2 or 3 MHz only.
(d) The ground wave propagation is generally used for local band broadcasting and is commonly called medium
wave.
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(e) The maximum range of ground or surface wave propagation depends on two factors :
(i) The frequency of the radio waves and
(ii) Power of the transmitter
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waves of frequencies higher than 30 MHz penetrate the ionosphere and escape.
(c) The highest frequency of radiowaves which when sent straight (i.e. normally) towards the layer of ionosphere
gets refelcted from ionosphere and returns to the earth is called critical frequency. . If is given by
f c = 9 (N max) 1/2, where N is the number density of electron/m 3 .
Space wave propagation :
(a) The space waves are the radiowaves of very high frequency (i.e. between 30 MHz. to 300 MHz or more).
(b) the space waves can travel through atmosphere from transmitter antenna to receiver antenna either derectly
or after reflection from ground in the earth's troposphere region. That is why the space wave propagation
is also called as tropospherical propagation or line of sight propagation.
(c) The range of communication of space wave propagation can be increased by increasing the heights of transmitting
and receiving antenna.
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(d) If the transmitting antenna is at a height hT, then you can show that the distance to the horizontal dT is given

as d T  2Rh T , where R is the radius of the earth (approximately 6400 km). d T is also called the radio

maximum line-of sight distance d m between the two antennas having heights h T and h R above the earth is
given by :

d M  2Rh T  2Rh R
where h R is the height of receiving antenna.
Modulation
* It is a process by which any electrical signal called input / baseband or modulating signal, is mounted onto
another signal of high frequency which is known as carrier signal.

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* It is defined as the process by which some characteristic (called parameter) of carrier signal is varied in
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* The signal which results from this process is known as modulated signal.
Need for Modulation :
(i) To av io d i nter ference :

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If many modulating signals travel directly through the same transmission channel, they will interfere with each
other and result in distortion.
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The minimum height of antenna (not of antenna tower) should be /4 where  is wavelength of modulating
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signal. This minimum size becomes impracticable because the frequency of the modulating signal can be upto
5 kHz which corresponds to a wavelength of 3 × 10 8/5 × 10 3 = 60 km. This will require an antenna of
the minimum height of /4 = 15 km. This size of an antenna is not practical.
(iii) Effective Power Radiated by an Antenna :
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A theoretical study of radiation from a linear antenna (length ) shows that the power radiated is proportional
to (frequency) 2 i.e. (/) 2. For a good transmission, we need high powers and hence this also points out to
the need of using high frequency transmission.
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The above discussion suggests that there is a need for translating the original low frequency baseband message
signal into high frequency wave before transmission. In doing so, we take the help of a high frequency signal,
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which we already know now, is known as the carrier wave, and a process known as modulation which attaches
information to it. The carrier wave may be continuous (sinusoidal) or in the form of pulses, as shown in figure

Pulse
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Time period T 2 duration

=
T
Amplitude Pulse
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Pulse fall
Time amplitude
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Carrier wave : Sinusoidal

A sinusoidal carrier wave can be represented as
c(t) = A Csin (c t + )
where c(t) is the signal strength (voltage or current), AC is the amplitude, c (= 2fc) is the angular frequency
and  is the initial phase of the carrier wave. Thus, modulation can be affected by varying, any of three
parameters, viz A c, c and , of the carrier wave can as per the parameter of the message or information
signal. This results in three types of modulation : (i) Amplitude modulation (AM) (ii) Frequency modulation (FM)
and (iii) Phase modulation (PM), as shown in figure.
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0 (a)
-1
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
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m(t) 0 (b)
-1
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
2
cm(t)for AM 0 (c)
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10 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3

cm(t)for FM 0 (d)

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0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
1
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Modulation of a carrier wave : (a) a sinusoidal carrier wave
(b) a modulating signal : (c) amplitude modulatin :
(d) frequency modulation : and (e) phase modulation

Car rier Wave Pulse s :

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Similarly, the significant characteristics of a pulse are : Pulse Amplitude, Pulse duration or pulse Width, and
pulse Position (denoting the time of rise or fall of the pulse amplitude) Hence, different types of pulse modulation
are (a) pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), (b) Pulse duration modulation (PDM) or pulse width modulation
(PWM), and (c) Pulse position modulation (PPM).
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E x . 1 A separate high freq. wave (i.e. carrier wave) is needed in modulation why ?
A n s . This is because we cannot change any of the characteristics (amplitude, frequency or phase) of the audio
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signal as this would change the message to be communicated. So keeping the audio signal same, the amplitude
of freq. or phase of the high freq. carrier wave is modified in accordance with the modulating (i.e. audio
signal) signal.
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Amplitude Modulation :
In amplitude modulation the amplitude of the carrier is varied in accordance with the information signals.
Let c(t) = Ac sinc t represent carrier wave and m(t) = Am sin m t represent the message or the modulating
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c m (t) = (A c + A m sin mt) sin c t

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 A 
 A c  1  m sin m t  sin c t .....(1)
 Ac 

Note that the modulated signal now contains the message signal & it can be written as :
c m(t) = A c sinct + µA c sinmt sinc t ......(2)
Here µ = A m /A c is the modulation index
In paractice, µ is kept  1 to avoid distortion.
Using the trignomatric relation sinA sinB = ½ (cos (A – B) – cos (A + B), we can write c m (t) of eq. (15.4)as

µA c µA c
c m(t) = A c sinct + cos(c – m) t – cos(c + m) t ......(3)
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Here c – m and c + m are respectively called the called the lower side and upper side frequencies. The
modulated signal now consists of the carrier wave of frequency c plus two sinusoidal waves each with a
frequency slightly different from, know as side bands. The frequency spectrum of the amplitude modulated
signal is shown in figure :

Ac
µAc
Amplitude 2

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(e-m) e (e+m)  in radians

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As long as the broadcast frequencies (carrier waves) are sufficiently spaced out so that sidebands do not overlap,
different stations can operate without interfering with each other.

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E x . 2 A message signal of frequency 10 kHz and peak voltage of 10 volts is used to modulate a carrier of frequency
1 Mhz and peak voltage of 20 volts. Determine (a) modulation index, (b) the side bands produced.
S o l . (a) Modulation index = 10/20 = 0.5

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Pro ducat ion of Amplitude mo dulated Wave :
Ampitude modulation can be produced by a veriety of methods. A conceptually simple method is shown in
the block diagram of figure.
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BANDPASS
m(t) x(t) SQUARE y(t) FILTER AM Wave
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Am sin mt LAW DEVICE CENTRED

(Modulating Singna) AT c
c (t) Bx(t) + Cx(t)2
Ac sinct
(carrier)
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Here the modulating signal A m sin mt is added to the carrier signal A c sin c t to produce the signal x (t).
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This signal x (t) = Am sin m t + Ac sinct is passed through a square law device which is a non-linear device
which produces an output
y(t) = B x (t) + Cx 2 (t) ......(4)
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where B and C are constants. Thus,

y(t) = BA m sinm t + BA c sin c t
+ C [A m2 sin 2 m t + A c 2 sin 2 c t + 2A m A c sinmt sinct] ......(5)
= BA m sinm t + BA c sin c t

CA 2m CA 2m CA 2c
 A 2c  cos 2 m t  cos 2 c t
2 2 2
+ CA m A c cos (c – m) t – CA mA c cos (c + m) t ......(6)

where the trigonometric relations sin 2A = (1 – cos2A)/2 and the relation for sinA sinB mentioned earlier
are used.
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In equation (6), there is a dc term C/2 (A 2m  A 2c ) and sinusoids of frequencies m, 2m, c – m and c

+ m . The output of the band pass filter therefore is of the same form as equation (3) and is therefore
an AM wave.

It is to be mentioned that the modulated signal connot be transmitted as such. The modulator is to be followed
by a power amplifier which provides the necesary power and then the modulated signal is fed to an antenna
of appropriate size for radiation as shown in figure.

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TRANSMITTING
ANTENNA
m(t) AMPLITUDE POWER
Message signal MODULATOR AMPLIIFIER

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Carrier

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Detect ion of Amplitude Mo dulated Wave :
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The transmitted message gets attenuated in propagating through the channel. The receiving antenna is therefore
to be followed by an amplifier and a detector. In addition, to facilitate further processing, the carrier frequency
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is usually changed to a lower frequency by what is called an intermediate frequency (IF) stage preceding the
detection. The detected signal may not be strong enough to be made use of and hence in required to be
amplified. A block diagram of a typical receiver is shown in figure.
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AMPLIFIER IF STAGE DETECTOR AMPLIFIER OUTPUT

Detection is the process of recovering the modulating signal from the modulated carrier wave. We just saw
that the modulated carrier wave contains the frequencies c and c ± m . In order to obtain the original
message signal m(t) of angular frequency m, a simple method is shown in the from of a block diagram in
figure.

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m(t)
AM Wave ENVELOPE OUTPUT
RECTIFIER
(b) DETECTOR (c)
(a)

time time time

AM input wave Rectified wave Output (without RF component)

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The modulated signal of the form given in (a) of above figure is passed through a rectifier to produce the

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output shown in (b). This envelope of signal (b) is the message signal In order to retrieve m(t), the signal is
passed through an envelope detector (which may consist of a simple RC circuit).

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The internet

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Students must be quite familiar with internet these days. The information provided by different these days.
The information provided by different bodies all over the world is centralised at one place. Which is then
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used by anyone having a computer and internet facility. It's main uses are :

(a) Emial (b) File transfer (c) WWW - World Wide Web
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(d) E-commerce (e) Chatting

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Facsimi le (FA X) :

FAX is abbreviation for facsimile which means exact reproduction. A fax machine sends a printed document
or a photograph besides speech, music or coded data from one place to another by data communication
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system which, as we already know, consists of three elements.

Transmitter Transmission channel Receiver

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It scans the contents of a document (as an image, not test) to create electronic signals. These signals arethen
sent to the destination (another FAX machine) in an orderly manner using telephone lines. At the destination,
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the signals are reconverted into a replica of the original document.

Mobile telephony

The concept of mobile telephony was developed first in 1970's and it was fully implemented in the following
decade. The central concept of this system is to divide the serice area into a suitable number of cells centred
on an office called MTSO (Mobile Telephone Switching Office). Each cell contains a low-power transmitter
called a base station and castomers. When a mobile receiver crosses the coverage area of one base station,
it is necessary for the mobile user to be transferred to another base station. This procedure is called handover
or handoff. This process is carried out very rapidly, to the extent that the consumer does not even notice
it. Mobile telephones operate typically in the UHF range of frequencies (about 800-950 MHz).
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SOLVED EXAMPLE
Ex.1 Suppose a pure Si crystal has 5 × 10 28 atoms m –3. It is doped by 1 ppm concentration of pentavalent

As. Calculate the number of electrons and hole. (Given that n i = 1·5 × 10 16 m –3 .)

F 5  10 I = 5 × 10 m
28
Sol Here n e  N D = GH 10 JK
6
22 –3

nh =
ni
2
=
e1  5  10 j = 2  25  10
16
2
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= 4·5 × 10 9 m –3
ne 5  10 22 5  10 22
Ex.2 Pure Si at 300K has equal electron (ne) and hole (nh) concentrations of 1.5 × 1016 m–3. Doping in indium

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increases n h to 4.5 × 10 22 m –3 . Calculate n e is in the doped Si.

n 2i 16 2
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Sol. At thermal equilibrium n e n h = n i  ne = = 22 = 5 × 10 9 m –3
nh 4.5  10

Ex.3 The diagram shows a piece of pure semiconductor S, in series with a

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variable resistor R, and a source of constant voltage V. Would you increase

or decrease the value of R to keep the reading of ammeter (A) constant,

when semiconductor S is heated ? Give reason.

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Sol. Value of R should be increased with the increase in temperature of semiconductor as circuit resistance
decreases and current tends to increase.
Ex.4 A p–n junction diode can withstand current up to 10 mA under forward bias, the diode has a potential
drop of 0.5V across it which is assumed to be independent of current what is the maximum voltage of
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battery used to forward bias the diode when a resistance of 200 is connected in series with it.
Sol. Potential drop is 0.5 and current is 10 mA.
0.5
so resistance of diode is = = 50 Total resistance of circuit is = 200 + 50 = 250
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10  10 3

Vmax.
So maximum current is =10 × 10 –3  V max. = 2.5 volt
250
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Ex.5 If current in given circuit is 0.1A then calculate resistance

of P–N junction.
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Ex.6 What is the value of current I in given circuits

(a) (b) (c)

2.7  0.7 20 18  6
Sol. (a) I = 3 = 2mA (b) I = = 1 A (c) I = = 24 mA
1  10 10  10 500

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Ex.7 For half wave rectifier if load resistance RL is 2k and P–N junction resistance Rd is 2k determine rectification
efficiency.

FG R IJ 2k 
HR R K
L
 HWR  40.6
Sol.
d L
= 40.6 ×
b2  2gk = 20.3 %

Ex.8 Calculate the value of V 0 and I if the Si diode and the Ge diode
start conducting at 0·7V and 0·3 volt respectively, in the given circuit.
If the Ge diode connection be reversed, What will be the new values
of V0 and I ?

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V0 11  7
Sol. V 0 = 12 – 0·3 = 11·7 V    Current I = = = 2·34 mA
RL 5  10 3

On reversing the connections of Ge diode the output voltage

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V 0 ' = 12 – 0·7=11·3 V

V '0 11  3

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The current in load I´ = = = 2·26 mA
RL 5  10 3

Ex.9 A common emitter amplifier has a voltage gain of 50, an input impedance of 200 and an output impedance
of 400. Calculate the power gain of the amplifier.
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F R I = 50   = 50  R = 50  200 = 25
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Sol. Voltage gain = () GH R JK0

i R 400 0
i

= ( ) G
F R I = (25) FG 400 IJ = 625 × 2 = 1250
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H 200 K
2 0 2
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Ex.10 An n-p-n transistor in a common emitter mode is used as a simple voltage

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amplifier with a collector connected to load resistance RL and to the base through
a resistance RB. The collector-emitter voltage VCE = 4V, the base-emitter voltage
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VBE = 0.6V, current through collector is 4 mA and the current amplification factor

 = 100. Calculate the values of R L and R B .

Sol. Given, i c = 4 mA
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84
V CE = 8 – i C R L  R L = = = 1× 10 3  = 1 k
iC 4  10 3
I C 4 mA
IB   = 4 × 10 –5 A
 100
8  VBE 8  0.6
 VBE = 8 – I BR B  RB =  = 185 k
IB 4  10 5
Ex.11 A transistor has a current amplification factor (current gain) of 50. In a CE amplifier circuit, the collector
resistance is chosen as 5k and the input resistance is 1k. Calculate the output voltage if input voltage
is 0·01V.
FG R IJ FG 5 IJ
H1K
C
Sol. For transistor amplifier V 0 = 
HR K
B
Vi = (50) (0·01) = 2·5 V

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Ex.12 In a transistor connected in common emitter mode R0 = 4 k, Ri = 1 k, iC = 1 mA and i b = 20 µA. Find
the voltage gain.

FG IJ FG i IJ FG R IJ F 1  10 3 I F 4I
Sol.
R0
Voltage gain A V =  R
H K = H i K H R K = GH 20  10
i
c

b
0

i
6 JK GH 1 JK = 200

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Ex.13 For given CE biasing circuit, if voltage across collector–emitter

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is 12V and current gain is 100 and b ase c urrent i s 0.04mA

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then determine the value of collector resistance R C .

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Sol.  VCE = V CC – I C × R C
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VCC  VCE V  VCE 20  12

 RC =  CC   2 k
IC  IB 100  0.04  10 3
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Ex.14 Write down the actual logic operation carried by the following circuit. Explain your answer.
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Sol. XOR operation

 Y= AB  AB which is boolean expression for XOR gate

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