By taking advantage of a saturated bipolar transistor's "gain reversal" phenomenon, this circuit can perform full-wave signal rectification using only one transistor
| Authors | David Albean |
| Main Document | Article «Full-Wave Signal Rectifier Uses Just One Transistor» |
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- Article «Full-Wave Signal Rectifier Uses Just One Transistor»
- Figure 1. By taking advantage of a saturated bipolar transistor's "gain reversal" phenomenon, this circuit can perform full-wave signal rectification using only one transistor
- Figure 2. A full-wave rectifier is realized by setting RX = ∞. Half-wave rectification is predicted at RX = 3k
- Figure 3. Measured waveforms verify the full-wave (a) and half-wave (b) performance predicted by the Spice analysis
