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Field Effect Transistor (FET) : by K. Sreevidya Asst .Professor Dept of ECE

The document discusses field effect transistors and compares BJTs and FETs. It describes the construction and operating characteristics of n-channel JFETs, including how drain current varies with drain-source voltage for different gate-source voltages and how it saturates at pinch-off.

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Field Effect Transistor (FET) : by K. Sreevidya Asst .Professor Dept of ECE

The document discusses field effect transistors and compares BJTs and FETs. It describes the construction and operating characteristics of n-channel JFETs, including how drain current varies with drain-source voltage for different gate-source voltages and how it saturates at pinch-off.

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Field Effect Transistor(FET)

By
k. Sreevidya
Asst .professor
Dept of ECE
Difference between BJT & FET
BJT FET
 Three terminal semiconductor device.  Three terminal semiconductor device
 Emitter, base, collector  Source, gate,drain
 Current controlled device  Voltage controlled device
 Bipolar device  Unipolar device
 Two types- npn & pnp  Two types – JFET & MOS FET
Classification of FET

Construction of N-channel JFET
Major part of the structure is n- type meterial.
Top of the n-type channel Is connected
through an ohmic contact to a terminal
Reffered to as drain(D).
As lower end Connected through an ohmic
contact to a terminal Reffered as source (S).
P-type meterials connected to gether and
taken as terminal gate(G).
JFET has two pn junctions under no bias
condition.
JFET operating characteristics:VGS=0V
Three things happen when Vgs=0v and Vds Is
increased from 0v to more positive Voltage
A depletion region between p-gate and N-channel
increases as electrons from N-channel Combine
with holes From p-gate.
Increasing the depletion region decreasing the size
of N-channel Which increases the resistance of the
N-channel.
Even through the N-channel resistance increasing
the current (ID) from source to drain through the
N-channel is increasing.This is because Vds is
increasing.
JFET operating characteristics: pinch off
If Vgs =0v and Vds is further increased to a
more positive Voltage , that the depletion
region gets increases and pinchoff the N-
channel.
This suggests that the current in N-channel
(ID) would be dropped to SaturatIon.
JFET drain characteristics
Plot between Vds Vs Id for different
values of vgs.
When Vgs=0v & Vds is positive ,Id
increases linearly.
When Vds is more positive Voltage id
gets saturated as Idss.
When Vgs=-ve ,& Vds positive Voltage Id
current reduces from the previous value
of Id.
JFET TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS
Plot between vgs and id for fixed
value of vds
When vgs = 0v id is idss and as vgs
more negative ,the drain current Id
reduces.
THANK YOU

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