Different classes of amplifiers. What are the benefits of class AB amplifiers? Patents that address the quiescent current of class AB amps. Amplifiers have many classifications, and each class has its ...

Transistors often find use as three-pin amplifier devices, in which the input and the output share one pin. Thus, the input and the output must have the same voltage at this pin. On the other hand, a ...

Amplifiers are fundamental circuit-design elements. They drive everything from earbuds to antennas. Placed ahead of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), they reshape signals from sources as diverse as ...

[Dino Segovis] wrote in to tell us about his “hack”, making an AB Audio Amplifier. The advantage of this particular amp is that the transistors never turn off, which would cause distortion. A full ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—William H. Doherty was an engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1936 when he invented a circuit that used two tubes running in Class B configuration to act as a linear amplifier ...