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Common Collector BJT Amplifiers, CC Amplifiers, Common Collector bjt ampplifiers in proteus, proteus implementation of BJT amplifiers.
Hi Mentees, Welcome to a new tutorial at The Engineering Projects. Today You will unearth about Common Collector bipolar Junction Transistor Amplifiers. Before this, we learnt about two types of Configurations of Transistors named Common Emitter BJT Amplifiers and Common Base BJT Amplifiers.

In this tutorial We'll discuss about:
  1. Introduction of Common Collector BJT Amplifier.
  2. Basic Concepts for the Common Collector BJT Amplifiers.
  3. Implementation of Common Collector BJT Amplifiers in Proteus ISIS.
  4. Characteristics and advantages of Common Collector BJT Amplifiers.
So that, you can get the best understanding about the topic and its practical implementation.

Introduction

1st  of all, We'll have a brief definition of the Common Collector Amplifier: " A type of Bipolar Junction Transistor Amplifier is called Common Collector BJT Amplifiers in which Collector is common to both Base, Base region is used for input and emitter is used to take the output of the Amplifier."  It is one of the Configuration of the Transistor and is used in many kinds of circuits due to its efficiency. Other two Configurations are;
  1. Common Base BJT Amplifiers.
  2. Common Emitter BJT Amplifiers.
All of them acquire their Own Construction, characteristics and advantages as we as disadvantages. Common Collectors are also called as Emitter follower Configuration as the emitter voltage follows the base voltage.

Basic Concepts:

It is Always useful to get core information about the circuit before its Implementation. Let's see what a Common Collector amplifiers is. Type of transistor: Recall that  the are two types of Transistors i.e, 1. NPN 2.PNP. the Transistor we are using NPN transistor for our Experiment because in this type, the electrons are majority carries that have more mobility than holes ( majority charge carriers in PNP transistors) therefore, we get quick and easy output due to best electron flow.
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  Current Gain: The current gain of this type of amplifier is also taken as the division of the Emitter current with the base current and mathematically it is stated as:

Current Gain = Emitter current/Base Current

? = IE/IB = ß + 1

Voltage Gain : Voltage Gain of Common Collector BJT Amplifier is considered to be the unity, i.e. 1 and is obtained by the formula given below: Voltage Gain=Vout/Vin where in Common Collector amplifier we give the input to Base and take the output from the emitter of the transistor. Emitter Current: in this Configuration the Emitter current is taken as the sum of base current and collector current. consequently, we say  Ie=Ib+Ic we can use this equation in others ways as,

Ib=Ie-Ic

Ic=Ie-Ib

we can also say that the collector current is approximately equal to Emitter current because base is very thin region and passes a minute amount of current through it.

Implementation of Common Collector BJT Amplifier in Proteus ISIS

At the instance, we will test the circuit given in the circuit diagram in Proteus. the material for the Circuit is given below. Material Required: 
  1. Transistor (2N1711)
  2. Capacitor
  3. Resistor
  4. Vsine
  5. Oscilloscope
  6. Ground
  • Take 1st four components from the "Pick device" library presented at the left corner of the screen.
  • Set them at the working area according to the circuit diagram.
  • Add the ground terminal by left clicking the screen >Go to Place>Terminal>Ground and add the ground Terminal.
NOTE: You can also connect just one Ground terminal to the circuit if you connect the Circuit with a wire at the bottom. Now, the Circuit will look like this:
Common Collector BJT Amplifiers, CC Amplifiers, Common Collector bjt ampplifiers in proteus, proteus implementation of BJT amplifiers.
  • Add the DC source from "Generation Mode" to just above the circuit.
Now, We need an output device to examine the output. Therefore, We'll use Oscilloscope. Choose it from "Virtual Instrument mode".
  • Set the Oscilloscope just aside the circuit and Connect Channel A with input (Base) and the Channel B with the output ( Emitter).
Before Starting the simulation, I am going to change the values of the Components I used because the default values will not give us the required Output.
Common Collector BJT Amplifiers, CC Amplifiers, Common Collector bjt ampplifiers in proteus, proteus implementation of BJT amplifiers.
  • we will use the 120V for the DC Power source.
  • One can clearly examine that the Values of the Components are given according to the table given below:
Components Values
Resistor R1 10ohm
Resistor R2 100ohm
Resistor R3 20ohm
Resistor R4 100kohm
VSine Amplitude=220, Frequency=1000
Capacitor 1 50m
Capacitor 2 2m
Oscilloscope Channel 5V, Channel B=5V, Time=0.2mS-1
 
  • After setting the values  you can change the value of Oscilloscope to get the required output.
NOTE: The amplifiers are sensitive to the temperature and the type of transistor used, hence their must be the practice to get the best output.

Characteristics

  • The input Resistance of Common Collector Amplifiers is high.
  • The power gain of this kind of amplifiers is medium.
  • It has low output resistance.
  • It has non-inverting effect (opposite to other two Configuration that gives the inversion of the wave).
  • It has zero voltage gain.

Advantages of Common Collector BJT Amplifiers

  1. It is useful for the circuits where the high impedance is required.
  2. It is mostly used as voltage buffers as the voltage gain is unity.
  3. The Common Collector configuration is used in the Circuit where the engineers want the high current gain.
  4. Due to its high current gain, it is applied in circuits to drive heavy loads.
  5. We use it for voltage translation stage.
NOTE: Sometimes, It becomes the disadvantage of the Common Collector bipolar Junction Transistor Amplifier that they have no voltage Gain. Summary: Today, we ascertained the Basic Common Collector BJT Amplifiers, learnt some Concepts about it, saw the Implementation in Proteus ISIS, saw some characteristics and found the advantages of the Common Collector Configuration.