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Two classes of more complex amplifier are considered, where ‘more complex’ as opposed to ‘simple’ implies amplifiers comprising more than a single active device such as a bipolar transistor or a field-effect transistor. The first class of more complex amplifier is the differential or difference amplifier. The second class is that of the multi-stage amplifiers which comprise a set of stages 1,2,3 and 4 (more than 4 is very unusual), where the output from stage 1 is coupled to the input to stage 2 and so on. Each stage is a simple single-stage amplifier based on a single active device or may be a differential amplifier which is based on two active devices which, however, are not in cascade.
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© 1979 K.J. Close and J. Yarwood
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Close, K.J., Yarwood, J. (1979). More complex amplifiers and some applications. In: Experimental Electronics for Students. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5767-1_6
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