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Which quantity must be kept below unity to guarantee thermal stability?

  • A.The ratio of emitter resistance to collector resistance in the stage
  • B.The fraction of the supply voltage appearing across the device
  • C.The loop gain of the thermal feedback
  • D.The stability factor of the bias arrangement as designed

Answer: C

Stability requires the thermal loop gain - the product of the electrical and thermal sensitivities - to be less than one, exactly as with any feedback loop. The stability factor is a related but different measure and cannot be below unity anyway. The resistance ratio and the voltage fraction are design choices that influence the loop gain without being it. Reducing a thermal problem to a loop gain criterion is what lets it be checked rather than guessed at.

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