Common drain

Common drain

In electronics, a common-drain amplifier, also known as a source follower, is one of three basic single-stage field effect transistor (FET) amplifier topologies, typically used as a voltage buffer. In this circuit the gate terminal of the transistor serves as the input, the source is the output, and the drain is common to both (input and output), hence its name. The analogous bipolar junction transistor circuit is the common-collector amplifier.

In addition, this circuit is used to transform impedances. For example, the Thévenin resistance of a combination of a voltage follower driven by a voltage source with high Thévenin resistance is reduced to only the output resistance of the voltage follower, a small resistance. That resistance reduction makes the combination a more ideal voltage source. Conversely, a voltage follower inserted between a driving stage and a high load (ie a low resistance) presents an infinite resistance (low load) to the driving stage, an advantage in coupling a voltage signal to a large load.

Characteristics

Basic N-channel JFET source follower circuit (neglecting biasing details).

At low frequencies, the source follower pictured at right has the following small signal characteristics.[1]

Voltage gain:


{A_{\text{v}}} = {v_{\text{out}} \over v_{\text{in}}} = \frac{g_m R_{\text{S}}}{g_m R_{\text{S}} + 1} \approx 1 \qquad (g_m R_{\text{S}} \gg 1)

Current gain:


{A_{\text{i}}} = \infty\,

Input impedance:


r_{\text{in}} = \infty\,

Output impedance: (the parallel notation A \| B indicates the impedance of components A and B that are connected in parallel)


r_{\text{out}} = R_{\text{S}} \| \frac{1}{g_m} = \frac{ \frac{R_{\text{S}}}{g_m} }{ R_{\text{S}} + \frac{1}{g_m} } = \frac{ R_{\text{S}} }{ g_m R_{\text{S}} + 1 } \approx \frac{1}{g_m} \qquad (g_m R_S \gg 1)

The variable gm that is not listed in Figure 1 is the transconductance of the device (usually given in units of siemens).

References

  1. ^ Common Drain Amplifier or Source Follower—Circuit analysis, low frequency, high frequency, and impedance calculations.

the gain of a common drain amplifier is -gmRd/(1+gmRs) where Rd is the equivalent resistance seen at the drain, and Rs is the equivalent resistance at the source

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