Current mirror with emitter degeneration

Authors	Stephen Woodward
Main Document	Article «A current mirror reduces Early effect»
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Document Language	English

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Article «A current mirror reduces Early effect»

Figure 1. Current mirror without emitter degeneration
Figure 2. Current mirror with emitter degeneration
Figure 3. A normalized Early effect (y-axis) versus emitter degeneration voltage V_E= I_A×R (x-axis). Note that just 50 mV reduces Early by 3:1. That's indeed a "long way"!

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