Laboratory Exercise 4 - 2

Capacitor Coupled Transistor Inverter

Number 5:

VB = 667mV
VC = 3.41V
Period = 15ms
PW = 1.48ms
SW = 13.52ms
Vp-p = 10V
tr = 13us
tf = 38us
+Vp = 8.02V
-Vp = 1.75V

Output voltage waveform: 5V/div; 5ms/div

Measured Values:

Number 2:
VB = 730mV
VC = 158mV

Number 3:
VB = 730mV
VC = 158mV

Number 4:

Input voltage waveform: 2V/div; 5ms/div

Number 6:

VB = 170mV
VC = 1.93V
Period = 15ms
PW = 623.2us
SW = 14.38ms
Vp-p = 10V
tr = 13us
tf = 36us
+Vp = 9.1V
-Vp = 600m

Output voltage waveform: 5V/div; 5ms/div

 VB =832mV
VC = 2.87V
Period = 5.3ms
PW = 879us
SW =1.77ms
Vp-p = 12.09V
tr = 9us
tf = 25us
+Vp = 10V
-Vp = 250mV

Output voltage waveform: 5V/div; 2ms/div

Number 7:

VB = 523mV
VC = 2.3V
Period = 25ms
PW = 1.48ms
SW = 23.52ms
Vp-p = 14.42V
tr = 0.0016us
tf = 37us
+Vp = 7.95V
-Vp = 1.85V
Analysis:

Output voltage waveform: 5V/div; 10ms/div 1. What is the effect of the capacitor in
the circuit?

 There is no any significant effect of the

capacitor in the circuit. The values
obtained when the capacitor was not
connected is the same as the values as
when the capacitor was not connected.

2. Would the capacitor be helpful as

transistor is being used as a switch?

 Without the input signal and with the

result we had in numbers 2 and 3, it is
hard to tell if the capacitor would be
helpful as to the transistor’s switching.
We did not had the tr and tf in out result
in numbers 2 and 3 so it is really hard
to tell with only those information and
also the voltages we measured at VB
and VC in numners 2 and 3 are with no
difference so we cannot use those
Number 8: information. However, base on the
 book the capacitor does speed up the
switching time of the circuit but the
difference is only milliseconds to a
circuit without the capacitor so even if
there really happened a faster
switching during our activity, we would
not be able to observe it anyway
because as what was said, the
difference is only milliseconds.

3. Comment on the results of procedure 5,

6, 7 and 8.

Input Input Pulse PW SW Period

Voltage Level
5 -4V 5ms 10ms 15ms
6 -1.5V 5ms 10ms 15ms
7 -4V 15ms 10ms 25ms
8 -4V 5ms 300us 5.3ms

Output Vp-p PW SW Period tr tf +Vp -Vp VB VC Freq.

5 10V 1.48 13.52 15 12.79 37.71 8.02 1.75 667 3.4 66.7
ms ms ms us us V V mV V Hz
6 10V 623 14.3 15 12.79 35.57 9.1 600 170m 1.93 66.7
us ms ms us us V mV V V Hz
7 14.42 1.48 23.52 25 0.0016 37 us 7.95 1.85 523m 2.3 40 Hz
V ms ms ms us V V V V
8 12.09 879 1.77 2.65 8.67 us 25.54 250 10 V 833m 2.87 377.36
V us ms ms us mV V V Hz

 From the results obtained in numbers 5

and 6, we had observed that lower
input pulse voltage level results in also
lower VB and VC and also tf is lower so it
means faster turn-off time and the
positive peak voltage is higher.
 From the results obtained in numbers 5
and 7, we had observed that Vp-p of
number 7 where PW is 10ms higher
than that in number 5, is almost 5V
higher. Also, tr is lower in number 7
which means faster turn-on time.
Another is with higher PW, the values
of VB and VC is lower.
 In numbers 5 and 8, the input
parameters are the same except to SW.
The effect of lower SW is that the value
of Vp-p is higher, tr and tf are lower
which means faster turn-on and turn-
off time, the +Vp is a lot lower but the
value of –Vp is much higher and the
value of VB is a little higher but the
value of VC is lower.