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Operation in the Cutoff Region For VGS = 0 there are two back to back p-n junctions. One is at the drain body and the other is at the source body. The reverse biased p-n junction results in zero drain current. This is called the cutoff region of operation. This situation persists until VGS reaches a threshold voltage, Vt0. Notice also that the body is shorted to the source. Thus the device is a three terminal device. Note that the BJT and MOSFET are both back-to-back p-n diodes, so that no current flows when there is no gate bias. However, the switching on part is different for each of them – one uses a contact to the gate to allow electrons to go to the base (BJT), while the other uses field effect to flip the carrier type in the base to produce conduction (MOSFET). 1 Operation in the Triode Region For VGS > Vt0, the electric field resulting from the gate voltage repels holes from the region under the gate, but attracts electrons, which can now flow easily between two n-type contacts (drain and source). This phenomenon manifests itself as an n-type channel between the drain and the source (thus the name n-MOS). Thus when positive VDS is applied current flows into the drain, through the channel, and out of the source. For small values of VDS the drain current, iD is proportional to VDS. iD is also proportional to VGS – Vt0. This called the Triode Region. 2 Operation in the Triode Region contd. In the triode region, the NMOS device behaves as a resistor connected between the source and the drain. The resistance decreases as VGS increases. Thus, FETs are sometimes used as voltage controlled resistors. For instance, for an amplifier, in which the gain depends on a certain resistance value we can control the gain by using a FET. The FET will provide variable resistance and hence can be used for automatic gain control (AGC). 3 Operation in the Saturation Region As VDS continues to increase the uniform channel starts to taper off in the direction of the drain. This is due to increase in electric field in that region. The consequence is higher channel resistance and an almost constant drain current after the VDS becomes larger than VGS - Vt0 . This region is called the saturation region of the NMOS. In summary: For VDS < VGS-Vt0 For VDS ≥ VGS-Vt0 Triode region Saturation region 4 Expression of drain current in the Triode Region 5 Operation in the Saturation Region Fig. 5.6 Characteristic curves for an NMOS transistor Note that the different characteristics are a function of voltage, not current, unlike BJTs Since at the boundary VDS = VGS–Vt0, we have the drain current given as 2 iD K VDS (5.7) 6 Example 5.1 7 The sinusoid signal will be distorted if the ac input signal is large. However, the distortion can be neglected if the signal is small. 8