Electrical Engineering › Section P · Semiconductor theory, diodes, and transistors › Topic P.5
Peak detectors, clippers, clampers, and voltage multipliers
Pair a diode with a capacitor or a reference voltage and it stops being just a rectifier. It can hold a peak, cut off part of a wave, shift a whole wave up or down, or stack peaks into a higher dc voltage.
In this topic
- Shaping waves with diodes
- The peak detector
- Worked example: smoothing a rectifier
- Clippers
- Biased clippers and protection
- Worked example: a two-level clipper
- Clampers
- Worked example: clamp, then double
- Voltage multipliers
- Cockcroft-Walton ladders and practical limits
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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