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Q.What is the use of bypass capacitor in CE amplifier?

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The bypass capacitor keeps AC out of RER_E so gain stays high while DC stabilisation is retained.

The emitter resistor RER_E is needed for DC bias stability, but if AC also flowed through it, the resulting negative feedback would sharply reduce the voltage gain. A bypass capacitor CEC_E connected across RER_E offers very low reactance to AC, so the AC emitter current is shunted through the capacitor instead of RER_E. Thus RER_E provides DC stabilisation while the capacitor prevents any loss of AC gain. …

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