Analog Electronics
Clipper and Clamper Circuits
Dr. R . K Saxena
Professor, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Global Institute of Technology, Jaipur (Raj.)
Unit1-Diode Circuits
Clipper and Clamper Circuits
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Clipper and Clamper Circuits
These circuits are applications of P-N Junction diodes
Clipper Circuits are used to clip off a portion of wave from an input signal
Main element is diode and it is used in two ways series and parallel.
Clamper Circuits clamp a signal to different dc level.
Along with diodes, capacitors and resistors are also used.
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Clipper Circuits
Series Clipper Circuit
• First introduced as a half-wave rectifier for sinusoidal waveforms.
• Any type of signals that can be applied to a clipper i.e. Sinusoidal, Square, Triangular, sawtooth etc.
• In Series Positive Clipper, the diode is connected in series with the output in Reverse Biasing.
• In Series Negative Clipper, the diode is connected in series with the output in Forward Biasing.
• In Series Bias Clipper, a battery is connected with resistance
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Series Positive Clipper
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Series Negative Clipper
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Series Bias Clipper
Biased Series Negative Clipper
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Series Bias Clipper
Biased Series Positive Clipper
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Parallel Clipper Circuits
Also called Shunt Clipper
In parallel clipper, Output is in parallel with the diode & resistance.
Like series, there is also positive and negative shunt clipper as well as biased parallel clipper.
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Shunt Parallel Positive Clipper
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Shunt Parallel Negative Clipper
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Biased Shunt Positive Clipper
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Biased Shunt Negative Clipper
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Clamper Circuit without DC Voltage Source
Clamping shifts the entire signal voltage by a DC voltage level.
If input, v is sinusoidal and after 90 , the capacitor is charged
i
0
by Vm
Then, I/p Voltage v moves towards the –ve cycle, then diode is
i
reverse biased and in ideal case, capacitor cannot discharge,
Therefore Vc = Vm
By applying KVL,
Here input signal is shifted by a DC level (here 0V); keeping peak-to-peak
value same
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Clamper circuit with DC voltage Source VB.
When I/P is shown polarity: Capacitor starts charging, Using KVL,
-VC - VB + vS = 0 VC = Vs– VB
When I/P polarity Changes: KVL equation
vO – vS + VC = 0 vO = vS – VC.
Here input signal is shifted by a DC level (VB); keeping peak-to-peak value same
Output for Sinusoidal and square inputs are shown.
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Thank you
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