Description
Contents of the book
Semiconductors and semiconductor devices
- Energy bands in conductors, insulators and semiconductors (qualitative idea only).
- Semiconductor diode. I-V Characteristics of semiconductor diode in forward and reverse bias.
- Semiconductor diode as a rectifier.
- Special purpose p-n junction diodes: LED, photodiode, solar cell and zener diode and their characteristics. Zener diode as a voltage regulator.
- Junction transistor; transistor action; characteristics of a transistor and transistor as an amplifier (common emitter configuration).
- Basic idea of analog and digital signals; logic gates, (OR, AND, NOT, NAND and NOR).
Principles of communication
- Elements of communication system (block diagram only).
- Bandwidth of signals (speech, TV and digital data); bandwidth of transmission medium.
- Propagation of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere, sky and space wave propagation.
- Satellite communication.
- Need of modulation; amplitude modulation.
Jasminder Jeet Singh –
This book is one of the best book on semiconductors and communication