Join Barron Stone for an in-depth discussion in this video What you should know, part of Electronics Foundations: Semiconductor Devices.
- Before beginning this course, you should already understand the fundamentals of electricity and how to build circuits using the three basic components of resisters, capacitors, and inductors. You should know how to build simple filter circuits, how to represent signals in the time and frequency domain, and how to interpret units of decibels and logarithmic scale. If you're brand new to electronics, I recommend watching the Foundations of Electronics: Fundamentals first to learn the core concepts of voltage, current, resistance, and power.
If you've got a grasp on those concepts, but you don't have much experience building circuits, then start with the Foundations of Electronics: Basic Circuits. If you've got all that down, let's get to it.
- Semiconductor materials
- Diode applications
- Rectifying a signal
- Detecting the signal peak
- Protecting against large signals, reverse current, and flyback voltage
- Special purpose zener diodes, Schottky diodes, and photodiodes
- NPN and PNP bipolar junction transistors
- Using a BJT as a switch
- Field effect transistors
- Differences between BJTs and MOSFETs
- Operational amplifiers
- Op-amp applications
- Comparing signals
- Buffering signals
- Amplifying signals
- Filtering signals
- Combining signals
Skill Level Intermediate
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2. Diode Applications
3. Special Purpose Diodes
4. Bipolar Junction Transistors
5. Transistor Applications
6. Field Effect Transistors
7. Operational Amplifiers
Feedback circuits6m 30s
8. Op-Amp Applications
Next steps1m 9s
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