2012/04/09 by Raju Baddi, Baddi, Raju
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Engineering and Technology Innovations #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Induction Heating and Inverter Technology #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.4604
7 pages, 7 figures
openalex publication_date 2012/04/09 · arxiv created 2013/04/20 · arxiv updated 2013/04/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Transistor is a three terminal semiconductor device normally used as an amplifier or as a switch. Here the alternating current (a.c) rectifying property of the transistor is considered. The ordinary silicon diode exhibits a voltage drop of ~0.6V across its terminals. In this article it is shown that the transistor can be used to build a diode or rectify low current a.c (~mA) with a voltage drop of ~0.03V. This voltage is ~20 times smaller than the silicon diode. This article gives the half-wave and full-wave transistor rectifier configurations along with some applications to justify their usefulness.