Colby Townsend September 7, 2012 Diodes Lab

1) Characteristic Curves: Design an experiment to allow you to sketch the characteristic curve for the 1N914 signal diode, 1N4000 series rectifier diode, and the BAT85 Schottky diode. Make at least 5 current & voltage measurements each and plot all three on the same graph, labeling each diode curve. a. We put the selected diodes in series with resistors and changed the current and voltage in increments

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iii. iv. 1N914

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2) DC Diode Circuits: Design a circuit using only resistors, a potentiometer, and two LEDs. The circuit must have both LEDs brightly lit when the potentiometer is turned all the way one direction and only one LED brightly lit when the potentiometer is turned all the way in the other direction. a. We did the project as the schematic shows

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ii. 3) Clamper Circuit: Design a circuit that will convert a 50% duty cycle square wave that goes from 4 V to + 4V to a 50% duty cycle square wave that goes from 8V to 0 V. a. This is a negative clamper circuit which is composed of a diode and a capacitor. The schematic is shown below

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iii. 4) Negative Rectifier: Design a circuit that will only pass through the negative cycles of 8 V p-p sine wave. a. The schematic for the Negative Half Wave Rectifier is as shown

i. ii. Figure 1 shows the graph. 5) Bridge Peak Rectifier: Design a peak bridge rectifier circuit with 1N4000 series diodes to produce an 8 V DC (+/- 0.3 V) signal with < 10% ripple from an 20V p-p sine wave input. You will have to use the subtract feature on the scope to show this on the scope since you are not using a transformer. a. I used four 1N4007 rectifier diodes. Using the percent ripple voltage equation, I calculated that for a 1kHz signal with a 1 micro-Farad capacitor I would need a 5 kiloohm resistor.

i. ii. Figure 2 is the graph of the full wave bridge peak rectifier. 6) Half Wave Peak Rectifier: Design a half wave peak rectifier circuit with BAT85 schottky diodes to produce a 6 V DC (+/- 0.5 V) signal with < 10% ripple from a 14V p-p sine wave input. a. I used a Schottky diode. Using ripple voltage percentage calculations I concluded at 100Hz with a 10k resistor I would need a 10 micro-Farad capacitor.

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ii. iii. Figure 3 is the graph from the oscilloscope. 7) Zener Regulator: Design a zener regulator circuit that will provide a 9 V (+/- 0.5 V) regulated output from a 12V DC source. If we dont have the exact zener diode you are looking for you will have to combine ones that we have. a. We used the 5239B zener diode. i. The schematic is shown

ii. 8) Limiter Circuit: Design a circuit that takes a sine wave that is symmetrical about the x-axis and limits the positive cycle to a predefined level. In other words it will clip positive cycles of the sine wave at the limit you set. Include a switch in the circuit so that you can turn on or off the limiter.