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Why does a transistor's beta fall at high frequencies?

  • A.Junction capacitances shunt the drive current away
  • B.The base becomes too thin to carry the current
  • C.Leakage current grows with the signal frequency
  • D.The Early effect becomes stronger as frequency rises

Answer: A

At high frequencies the base-emitter capacitance takes an increasing share of the drive current, so less of it produces collector current. Base thickness is fixed, leakage is a temperature effect, and the Early effect is a voltage effect. A gain that falls with frequency is nearly always a capacitance diverting something, and finding which capacitance and where it goes is the whole of high-frequency analysis.

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