"gm/id" method for 2N3903 bjt

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yef smith

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Hello,I am trying to understand the effect of the biasing on bjt to the gain of the AC signal going into 2N3903 bjt which data sheet is shown bellow.
Bellow we have the collector current plot ,i know that Ic=beta*ibase so what do i do with this plot to find the beta and finding the gain value of common bjt?
Thanks.

https://www.onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/2N3903-D.PDF

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yef smith

Joined Aug 2, 2020
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Hello Bordodynov i got a plot of Ic/Ib as shown bellow.
I just want to know what biasing to do i order to a small signal analysis.



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Audioguru again

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The datasheet for any transistor shows a wide range of base-emitter voltage an beta. Also, when the temperature changes then the base-emitter voltage changes that affects the transistor circuit.

To make a product work with all transistors having the same part number then you must add some AC and DC negative feedback.
For a 2N3904 its datasheet shows in a graph that is "typical" base-emitter voltage at a collector current of 0.5mA is 0.65V. It might vary 0.4V with different transistors even if they have the same part number. A graph shows how much temperature change affects the base-emitter voltage.

Usually a transistor has an emitter resistor so that base-emitter voltage differences are reduced. The emitter resistor reduces distortion and voltage gain.

Usually the base-emitter-resistor is biased from a two-resistors voltage divider. Here is a typical circuit:
 

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