Bipolar Junction Transistor(BJT) as a Amplifier

Amplification

As we have discussed the other uses of BJTs in previous posts, now there is another main use or advantage of Bipolar transistor is that it can amplify the input signal whether it is voltage or current. As some time we need to amplify the current and sometimes voltage. We provide an input signal to the BJT, and it produces the amplified signal at the output. The gain of the amplifier can be calculated by the ratio of output to the input value of current or voltage. The amplifier does not change the waveform or frequency. It just affects the current and voltage.

How to make BJT an Amplifier:

To make BJT work as amplifier we need to do some different types of configuration of it, in a circuit. There are three configurations, which we can do,

•        Common Base Configuration (only has voltage gain).
•       Common Emitter Configuration (has both voltage and current gain)
•       Common Collector Configuration (only has current gain)