End Semester Examination 308EET05- ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS ANSWER THE FOLLOWING PART-A (102=20 Marks) 1.

Give the equation for diode current under reverse bias. 2. Draw the VI characteristics of a PN junction diode. 3. Define the different operating regions of transistor. 4. What is the use of heat sink? 5. State the advantages of FET over the BJT. 6. Give an important reason for which N-channel FETs are preferred over P-channel FETs. 7. Classify the different sinusoidal oscillators. 8. Define sampling and mixing. 9. Draw the basic diagram of positive clamping. 10. Define Multivibrator. PART-B (516=80 Marks) 11. (a) (i) What are the various applications of p-n junction diode?explain. (ii) Draw the symbol and explain the V-I characteristics of the p-n junction diode. (8+8) (OR) (b) (i) Explain the circuit diagram of a single phase full-wave bridge rectifier and sketch the input, output waveforms. (ii) Derive the expression for ripple factor in a full wave rectifier using an inductor filter. 12. (a)(i) Explain active region, saturation region and cut-off region in transistor (ii) Explain the input and output characteristics of the transistor in CC configuration with diagrams. What is the inference from these characteristics (OR) (b) Draw the input and output characteristics of bipolar junction transistor in common emitter configuration and how the hybrid parameters are obtained. 13. JFETS Give applications of JFETs. (OR) (b) Explain the construction and working of enchancement MOSFET and Depletion MOSFET. Draw the characteristics 14. (a) Draw the circuit of RC coupled two stage amplifiers and explains it. (16) (OR) (16) (16) (16) (16) (a) Explain the construction and working and operating characteristics of n-channel (8+8) characteristics

(b)Draw the circuit diagram of a RC phases shift oscillator using BJT. Derive the expression for frequency of oscillators. 15. (ii) Draw the circuit of a monostable mutivibrator and explain. (OR) (b)(i) Explain the working of UJT relaxation oscillator with necessary waveforms and equations (ii)What is clipper? Explain the concept of positive clipper (8+8) (16) (8+8) (a)(i) Explain the operation of a bistable multi-vibrator circuit with neat sketch.