Q.In a Colpitt's oscillator circuit :
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →The Colpitts oscillator's tank circuit uses a capacitive voltage-divider (two series capacitors with a single inductor) to derive its feedback signal, which is why it is characterised as using capacitive feedback.
An LC oscillator sustains continuous oscillation by feeding a fraction of the tank circuit's output signal back to the amplifying device (transistor or op-amp) in the correct phase to satisfy the Barkhausen criterion (loop gain , loop phase shift or a multiple of ). Different LC-oscillator topologies differ mainly in how this feedback fraction is tapped from the tank circuit.
In a Colpitts oscillator, the tank circuit consists of a single inductor in parallel with two capacitors and connected in series with each other. The junction between and forms a capacitive voltage divider, and the feedback voltage fed back to the amplifier's input is tapped from this junction — hence 'capacitive feedback'. The oscillation frequency is set by and the series combination of : with .
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