What is Feedback Circuit and Feedback Amplifier ? Types of Feedback Amplifier | New Topic [2023]

Poly Notes Hub‘s today’s topic is Feedback Amplifier and Types of Feedback Amplifier. Here we discuss about the feedback circuit and describe their types. Important topic for Diploma Engineering Students.

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What is Feedback Circuit?

The process of injecting a fraction of the output energy of some device back to the input is known as Feedback and the circuit is called a Feedback Circuit.

What is Feedback Amplifier?

An electronic amplifier that employs feedback to regulate its gain, bandwidth, linearity, and other characteristics is known as a feedback amplifier. Therefore, not all feedback circuits are feedback amplifiers, even though feedback amplifiers always involve feedback circuits. In particular, feedback amplifiers employ feedback to adjust or enhance their performance characteristics.

Types of Feedback Amplifier

There are two basic types of Feedback in Amplifier –

1. Positive Feedback
2. Negative Feedback

Below we discuss about these feedback –

Positive Feedback

When the feedback energy (voltage and current) is in phase with the input signal and thus aids it, it is called positive feedback. This is illustrated in Fig. The amplifier and feedback network introduce a phase shift of 180°. The result is a 360° phase shift around the loop, causing the feedback voltage Vf to be in phase with the input signal Vin.

Advantages of Positive Feedback

1. It increases the gain of the amplifier.

Disadvantages of Positive Feedback

1. It increases the distortion.
2. This circuit is not stable as well.

Applications of Positive Feedback

1. It is used in Oscillator circuits. An oscillator is a device that converts DC power into AC power of any desired frequency.

Negative Feedback

When the feedback energy (voltage and current) is out of phase with the input signal and thus opposes it, it is called negative feedback. This is illustrated in Fig. As you can see, the amplifier introduces a phase shift of 180° into the circuit while the feedback network is so designed that it introduces no phase shift (i.e., 0° phase shift). The result is that feedback voltage Vf is 180°out of phase with the input signal Vin.

Advantages of Negative Feedback

1. It reduces the distortion.
2. It decreases the noise.
3. Increases the input impedance.
4. It is stable.
5. Decreases the output impedance.

Disadvantages of Negative Feedback

1. It reduces the gain of the amplifier.

Applications of Negative Feedback

1. Used in Amplifiers.

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