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This chapter is for the reader who has limited knowledge of electronics. It is intended to provide an overview of the subject so that discussions in later chapters about the operation and use of automotive electronics control systems will be easier to understand. The chapter discusses electronic devices and circuits having applications in electronic automotive instrumentation and control systems. Topics include semiconductor devices analog circuits, digital circuits, and fundamentals of integrated circuits.
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CHAPTER
ELECTRONIC FUNDAMENTALS
2
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Semiconductor Devices ........................................................................................................................ 24
Diodes .................................................................................................................................. 27
Zener Diode .......................................................................................................................... 29
Electro Optics ...................................................................................................................................... 30
Photo Conductor .................................................................................................................... 31
Photo Diode .......................................................................................................................... 32
Light Generating Diode .......................................................................................................... 34
Laser Diode ........................................................................................................................... 34
Rectifier Circuit ................................................................................................................................... 35
Communications Applications of Diodes .................................................................................. 37
Transistors ............................................................................................................................ 37
Field-Effect Transistors .......................................................................................................... 45
FET Theory .......................................................................................................................................... 47
FET Amplifier ........................................................................................................................ 50
Integrated Circuits ............................................................................................................................... 52
Operational Amplifiers ........................................................................................................... 53
Use of Feedback in Op-Amps ................................................................................................................ 54
Summing Mode Amplifier ...................................................................................................................... 56
Comparator ........................................................................................................................... 57
Zero-Crossing Detector ........................................................................................................... 58
Phase-Locked Loop ................................................................................................................ 58
Sample and Zero-Order Hold Circuits ...................................................................................... 60
Zero-Order Hold Circuit .......................................................................................................... 63
Bidirectional Switch .............................................................................................................. 64
Digital Circuits ..................................................................................................................................... 66
Binary Number System ......................................................................................................................... 68
Logic Circuits (Combinatorial) .............................................................................................................. 69
AND Gate ............................................................................................................................. 70
OR Gate ............................................................................................................................... 70
NOT Gate ............................................................................................................................. 70
Boolean Algebra .................................................................................................................... 71
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Exemplary Circuits for Logic Gates .......................................................................................... 71
Combination Logic Circuits ..................................................................................................... 75
Logic Circuits with Memory (Sequential) ............................................................................................... 77
R-S Flip-Flop ........................................................................................................................ 77
JK Flip-Flop .......................................................................................................................... 78
D Flip-Flop ........................................................................................................................... 79
Timer Circuit ......................................................................................................................... 80
Synchronous Counter ........................................................................................................................... 83
Register Circuits .................................................................................................................... 83
Shift Register ........................................................................................................................ 84
Digital Integrated Circuits ..................................................................................................................... 86
The MPU ............................................................................................................................................. 87
This chapter is for the reader who has limited knowledge of electronics. It is intended to provide
an overview of the subject so that discussions in later chapter s about the operation and use of automo-
tive electronics control systems will be easier to understand. The chapter discusses electronic
devices and circuits having applications in electronic automotive instrumentation and control systems.
Topics include semiconductor devices analog circuits, digital circuits, and fundamentals of integrated
circuits.
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
All of the active circuit devices (e.g., diodes and transistors) from which electronic circuits are built are
fabricated from so-called semiconductor materials. A semiconductor material in pure form is neither a
good conductor nor a good insulator. The ability of a material to conduct electric current is character-
ized by a property called conductivity. A model for current flow in semiconductor materials and an
explanation for electric conductivity are developed later in this chapter. A metal such as copper, which
is a good conductor, has a relatively high conductivity such that current flows in response to relatively
low applied voltage. An insulator such as mica has a relatively low conductivity such that essentially
zero current flows in response to an applied voltage. A semiconductor material has conductivity some-
where between that of a good conductor and that of a good insulator. Therefore, this material (also
called semiconductor material) and devices made from it are semiconductor devices (also called
solid-state devices).
There are many types of semiconductor devices, but transistors and diodes are two of the most im-
portant automotive electronics. Furthermore, these devices are the fundamental elements used to con-
struct nearly all modern integr ated circuits. Therefore, the discussion of semiconductor devices will be
centered on these two. Semiconductor devices are made primarily from silicon or germanium (although
other materials, e.g., gallium arsenide, are also in use) that is purposely infused with impurities that
change the conductivity of the material.
The conductivity of a pure semiconductor can be varied in a predictable manner by diffusing precisely
controlled amounts of very specific impurities into it. The process of adding impurities to silicon is called
“doping.” Boron and phosphorus are often used as impurity source materials to alter the conductivity of
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silicon. When boron is used, the semiconductor material becomes a so-called p-type semiconductor.
When phosphorus is used, the semiconductor material becomes an n-type semiconductor.
In order to understand the operation of these transistors and diodes, it is helpful to understand the
basic physical mechanism of electric conductivity in both n-type and p-type semiconductor materials.
The flow of an electric current through any material is due to the motion of electrons in the material in
response to an applied electric field. This electric field results from the application of a voltage at the
external terminals of the corresponding structure. The variable called an electric field in this chapter is a
component of the general theory that is known as “electromagnetic field theory.” This theory forms the
basis of modeling all electric phenomena. This electric field is represented by a vector that is known as
electric field intensity and denoted as
E in this book. Although the advanced details of electromagnetic
field theory are beyond the scope of this book, somewhat simplified theoretical models are presented in
later chapters (e.g., Chapter 5). For the purpose of explaining electric properties of semiconductor ma-
terials, we present the simplest model of electric field intensity in which the magnitude varies in pro-
portion to applied voltage and inversely with the distance between the electrodes to which the voltage is
applied. The electrons that move in response to this electric field originate from the individual atoms
that make up the material.
For a basic understanding of conductivity, it is helpful to refer to Fig. 2.1 that depicts a relatively
long, thin slab of semiconductor material across which a voltage is applied.
In this figure, the electric field intensity is a vector denoted as
E that is x-directed. In this book,
vectors are indicated by a bar over the symbol for the vector as exemplified by the electric field inten-
sity
E. A voltage v is applied to a pair of conducting (e.g., Cu) electrodes. For this relatively long, thin
semiconductor material, the magnitude of the electric field intensi ty E is approximately constant over
the semiconductor and is given approximately by
E ¼
V
L
The vector
E is given by
E ¼ E
^
x
where
^
x ¼unit vector in the x direction.
Electrode
i
Electrode
x
v
OL
E
J
FIG. 2.1 Illustration of current conduction in semiconductor.
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Also shown in Fig. 2.1 is the current density vector
J, which is also an x-directed vector. The current
density vector is propor tional to the electric field intensity:
J ¼ σ
E
¼ σE
^
x
(2.1)
where σ is the conductivity of the material. The magnitude of the current density J is the current per unit
cross-sectional area (which by the assumption of essentially constant E is constant) and is given by
J ¼
i
A
c
(2.2)
where A
c
is the cross-sectional area of the slab in the y, z plane. The reciprocal of conductivity is known
as the resistivity ρ of the material:
ρ ¼
1
σ
(2.3)
The explanation of electron flow in any material is based upon the “band theory of electrons.” This
theory is a major com ponent in modern atomic physics. According to this theory, the energy of the
electrons associated with the atoms making up a material is constrained to certain ranges called bands.
Any given electron will have an energy within one of these bands, and no electron can have energy
outside these bands. Within each band, the electrons can have only discrete energy levels, and only
one electron can “occupy” a given energy level. Consequently, the number of electrons within each
band for any atom is constrained to the number of “allowed” energy levels. An electron can only move
in response to an applied electric field and contribute to current flow if there is an unoccupied energy
level to which it can move as its energy changes due to the electric field intensity force acting on it.
All of the energy levels of the lower energy bands of an atom are filled such that there is no energy
level to which an electron can move in response to an applied electric field. Thus, these lower band
electrons cannot contribute to current flow in response to an applied voltage. The electrons in the out-
ermost band, known as the conduction band, are the least tightly bound, and for a material such as Si,
they are few in number relative to the number of energy levels in that band. These outer band electrons
can move to an adjacent energy level and effectively move freely in response to an applied electric
field. These electrons are called “free electrons.” Doping Si with phosphorus impurity results in an
excess of fre e electrons relative to pure Si. The doped material is said to be an “n-type” semiconductor
and has a conductivity that is greater than the undoped Si.
The next lowest energy band from the outermost is called the “valence band” since it is associated
with the chemical valence of the material (in this case Si). The energy levels of this band are nearly (but
not completely) filled. However, doping a semiconductor with a p-type impurity (e.g., doping Si with
boron) yields a relative excess of energy levels in this valence band. The resulting doped material is
called a p-type semiconductor. Electrons in this band can move to the available energy levels created by
doping in response to an electric field, thereby contributing to current flow. However, functionally, this
p-type material behaves as though it had excess of positively charged particles called “holes.” The
model for current flow in a semiconductor and the explanation of semiconductor devices use the fic-
titious holes and their response to an applied field as a basis for the contribution they make to current
flow. The terminology used to describe these charge carriers is as follows: in n-type material electrons
are called “majority carriers” and holes called “minority carr iers”; the reverse is true in p-type material.
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Doping a semiconductor material changes the relative densities of holes and electrons. However,
there is a basic relationship between these densities, which is preserved regardless of the doping con-
centrations. If one starts with an intrinsic semiconductor such as Si that has an equal concentration of
“free” electrons and holes (since each free electron leaves a “hole” in the valence band for an intrinsic
semiconductor), we denote this concentration n
i
¼1.510
10
/cm
3
.
Doping Si with either a p-type or an n-type impurity changes the concentrations. Denoting electron
density n, and hole density p, the following equation expresses the relationship between these concen-
trations under thermal equilibrium:
np ¼ n
2
i
(2.4)
There is another basic aspect of semiconductor physics that plays a role in the electric characteristics of
semiconductor electronic components. Whenever a voltage V is applied to a slab of semiconductor
material, it creates an electric field that is represented by the electric field intensity vector
E as de-
scribed above (in this text, the over bar for a variable is the notation indicating that the variable is
a vector).
In a semiconductor material, any electric field due to an external potential causes the electrons and
holes to move with mean velocity vectors
v
e
and
v
h
, respectively. These velocities are given by
v
e
¼ μ
e
E
v
h
¼ μ
h
E
where μ
e
is the electron drift mobility and μ
h
is the hole drift mobility.
These mean velocities yield electron and hole current densities
J
e
and
J
h
, respectively:
J
e
¼ nq
v
e
J
h
¼ pq
v
h
where q is the charge on an electron (1.6 10
19
coulomb). These relationships will appear in models
for various components in this text.
Throughout this book, current flow is taken to be conventional current in which the direction of flow
is from positive to negative, whereas in reality, current consists of electron motion from negative to
positive. This choice of current is merely convenient for notational purposes and has no effect on
the validity of any circuit analysis or design.
DIODES
The first electronic component to be considered is a device called a “diode.” A diode is a two-terminal
electric device having one electrode that is called the anode (a p-type semiconductor) and another that
is called the cathode (an n-type semiconductor). A solid-state diode is formed by the junction between
the anode and the cathode. In practice, a p-n junction is formed by diffusing p-type impurities on one
side of the intended junction and n-type impurities on the other side of a region of an intrinsic semi-
conductor (e.g., Si).
The regi on in which the diode material changes from p-type to n-type material is called the p-n
junction (or simply junc tion). The junction region is relatively short but plays a critical role in the diode
operation. When the junction is formed, elect rons in the vicinity of the junction migrate from the n-type
to the p-type. Similarly, holes in the region migrate from p-type to n-type. This migration leaves behind
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