Ahmad El-Banna • Effect of VK on half-wave rectified signal. Cross Over distortion The process of removing one-half the input signal to establish a dc level is called half-wave rectification.
El-Banna Clamping network with a sinusoidal input. A clamper is a network constructed of a diode, a resistor, and a capacitor that shifts a waveform to a different dc level without changing the appearance of the applied signal.
Ahmad El-Banna Example 1: First we have to check that there is sufficient applied voltage to turn on all the series diode elements. The white LED will have a drop of about 4 V across it, the 6-V and 3.3-V Zener diodes have a total of 9.3 V, and the forward-biased silicon diode has 0.7 V, for a total of 14 V. Example 2: