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Experiment No 1:
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Objective:
To study the characteristics of PN junction diode under forward bias condition and reverse bias
condition.
COMPONENTS:
PN junction diode is a two-terminal device. The P and N junctions are referred to as anode and
cathode respectively. A PN junction diode is a one way device offering low resistance. When forward
biased and behaving as an insulator when reverse biased.
Forward bias:
When a semiconductor diode is under forward bias condition, the anode of the diode is
connected to the positive terminal of battery and the cathode of diode is connected to negative
terminal of the battery.
Reverse Bias:
Here the anode of the diode is connected to the negative terminal of battery and cathode of the
diode is connected to positive terminal of the battery.
You will need a multimeter to confirm the polarity of a diode. You don’t need to report your
results here in your lab report.
Use your oscilloscope (or a second multimeter) to determine which of the multimeter leads has
a + voltage and which is - .
Look at your multimeter to see what special features it has. You can do a diode check with the
resistance function, on the 200 Ω scale. Even better, try the continuity or diode-check feature,
2. Input voltage is varied and the corresponding readings of voltmeter and ammeter
3. For reverse bias the polarity of the diode is reverse and the millimeter is replaced by a micro
ammeter
4. For the tabulated readings the forward and reverse characteristics of the PN junction diode
are drawn with voltage X- axis and current on Y- axis.
DIODE 1k 1k
DIODE
+
10V
-
+
10V
-
Observations:
1. 1
2. 2
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
RESULT:
Thus the value of reverse saturation current was studied under forward and reverse bias
condition in PN junction diode.