What is Miller effect?

The effect by which a capacitance between the input and output of an inverting amplifier appears (1 + gain) times larger from the input. It degrades the high-frequency response of common-emitter and common-source stages.

Field: Bipolar transistors

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Questions that mention Miller effect (5)

  1. Which correctly describes the Miller effect that degrades the high-frequency performance of a common-emitter amplifier?
  2. Which is a characteristic of a common-base amplifier?
  3. What is the effect in which the gate-drain capacitance appears (1 + gain) times larger when seen from the input of an amplifier?
  4. Which generally describes the relationship between a MOSFET's gate length (the length of the gate electrode on the mask or after patterning) and its effective channel length?
  5. Which correctly describes the idea of dominant-pole compensation used in op-amps?

Related terms

Current gain (hFE) Operational amplifier (op-amp) Annealing Phase margin Slew rate Common-emitter circuit Crossover distortion Current mirror Cutoff region Darlington connection

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