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What limits an emitter follower's bandwidth if not the Miller effect?

  • A.The collector load resistor and the stray capacitance
  • B.The emitter resistor and the output capacitance
  • C.The device's saturation voltage at high frequency
  • D.The base-emitter capacitance and the source impedance

Answer: D

The follower still has a base-emitter capacitance to charge through whatever drives it, so a high source impedance limits the bandwidth even with no Miller multiplication. There is no collector load in a follower, the emitter resistor is bypassed by the load rather than limiting, and saturation voltage is a large-signal parameter. Removing the dominant limitation reveals the next one, which is why a follower's bandwidth is wide rather than unlimited.

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