Noise. Analysis of negative feedback amplifier. The basic operational amplifier, circuits with operational amplifiers. Comparators, non linear application ideal diode, network with diode and transistors, logarithmic and exponential amplifiers. Nyquist and Bode plots, compensation. Barkhausen stability criterion, positive or regenerative feedback, general form of oscillator, Schmitt trigger, VCO Light interaction with matter, Rayleigth law, photoconductors, photodiode, LASER: LED
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Teaching Methods
frontal lessons and laboratory experiments
Course program
Noise: Noise induced and conducted, shielding, noise sources in electronic devices, Noise Figure, signal to noise ratio Classification of amplifiers, feedback concept, negative feedback, feedback connection at the output, feedback connection at the input, transfer ratio or gain, transfer gain with feedback, voltage and current signals in feedback amplifiers, loop gain, fundamental assumptions, desensitivity of transfer amplification, negative feedback and frequency distortion, linear and non linear distortion, oise reduction in a feedback configuration. , Analysis of feedback amplifier, input and output resistance, procedure to calculate the four different type of gain. The basic operational amplifier, differential amplifier, the emitter coupled differential amplifier, transfer characteristics of a differential amplifier, internal structure of an operational amplifiers, current repeater, active load, current source, level shifting. Offset error voltages and currents Ideal operational amplifiers, circuits with operational amplifiers, concept of input virtual ground, inverting and non inverting configuration, buffer, inverting and non inverting adder, tranconductance amplifier, transresistance amplifier, differential amplifiers, bridge amplifier, analog integration and differentiation. Transfer function of operational amplifiers, comparators, non linear application ideal diode, network with diode and transistors, logarithmic and exponential amplifiers Frequency response of operational amplifiers, stability, Nyquist and Bode plots, compensation, dominant pole compensation, pole-zero compensation, Miller compensation. Barkhausen stability criterion, positive or regenerative feedback, general form of oscillator configuration, phase shift oscillator, Wien bridge oscillator, Hartley oscillator, crystal oscillators. Comparators, application of comparators, Schmitt trigger, square wave and triangular wave generators, Voltage Controlled Oscillator. Monostable multivibrators, synchronized and, not synchronized, NE555. Light interaction with matter, Rayleigth law, Black Body law, photoconductors, photodiode, electrical bandwidth, optical bandwidth, photogeneration probabilità, photoconducting gain, thermal photoconductors, characteristics of photodevice, Responsivity, NEP, D*. Laser, light generation, spontaneous and stimulated emission, properties of laser beam, monocromaticity, spatial and temporal coherence, directionality, brightness, resonant optical cavity, three and four levels laser, pulsed laser, semiconductor laser. LED typical emitting structure, optical bandwidth, led drivers