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This is really simple - use an N channel FET and have it as a source follower. You can even use a BJT. The one below has gain due to the 3k3 feedback and the 1k to ground from -Vin. If you don't want gain connect the output directly to -Vin and omit the 1k.

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A unity gain buffer on the output of an op-amp is either an emitter follower or a source follower. Simple as that - feedback from the emitter/source back to inverting input of the op-amp.

Additionally, because the source/emitter voltage "follows" the op-amps output signal, the gate/base loading effects are minimal hence when using a MOSFET you don't need to worry about gate capacitance.

Think about this sensibly - Analog Devices or TI or MAXIM of LT - their marketing team are not going to wake up one morning and say to their designers - why can't you design an op-amp that allows someone to add a gain stage on it and expect it to be stable. If they did, the designers would say that they'd have to reduce the performance of the op-amp for it to be stable - just how would that op-amp compete in the market against all the op-amps that take the sensible road and keep building what they are good at.

This is really simple - use an N channel FET and have it as a source follower. You can even use a BJT. The one below has gain due to the 3k3 feedback and the 1k to ground from -Vin. If you don't want gain connect the output directly to -Vin and omit the 1k.

enter image description here

A unity gain buffer on the output of an op-amp is either an emitter follower or a source follower. Simple as that - feedback from the emitter/source back to inverting input of the op-amp.

Additionally, because the source/emitter voltage "follows" the op-amps output signal, the gate/base loading effects are minimal hence when using a MOSFET you don't need to worry about gate capacitance.

This is really simple - use an N channel FET and have it as a source follower. You can even use a BJT. The one below has gain due to the 3k3 feedback and the 1k to ground from -Vin. If you don't want gain connect the output directly to -Vin and omit the 1k.

enter image description here

A unity gain buffer on the output of an op-amp is either an emitter follower or a source follower. Simple as that - feedback from the emitter/source back to inverting input of the op-amp.

Additionally, because the source/emitter voltage "follows" the op-amps output signal, the gate/base loading effects are minimal hence when using a MOSFET you don't need to worry about gate capacitance.

Think about this sensibly - Analog Devices or TI or MAXIM of LT - their marketing team are not going to wake up one morning and say to their designers - why can't you design an op-amp that allows someone to add a gain stage on it and expect it to be stable. If they did, the designers would say that they'd have to reduce the performance of the op-amp for it to be stable - just how would that op-amp compete in the market against all the op-amps that take the sensible road and keep building what they are good at.

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This is really simple - use an N channel FET and have it as a source follower. You can even use a BJT. The one below has gain due to the 3k3 feedback and the 1k to ground from -Vin. If you don't want gain connect the output directly to -Vin and omit the 1k.

enter image description here

A unity gain buffer on the output of an op-amp is either an emitter follower or a source follower. Simple as that - feedback from the emitter/source back to inverting input of the op-amp.

Additionally, because the source/emitter voltage "follows" the op-amps output signal, the gate/base loading effects are minimal hence when using a MOSFET you don't need to worry about gate capacitance.

This is really simple - use an N channel FET and have it as a source follower.

A unity gain buffer on the output of an op-amp is either an emitter follower or a source follower. Simple as that - feedback from the emitter/source back to inverting input of the op-amp.

This is really simple - use an N channel FET and have it as a source follower. You can even use a BJT. The one below has gain due to the 3k3 feedback and the 1k to ground from -Vin. If you don't want gain connect the output directly to -Vin and omit the 1k.

enter image description here

A unity gain buffer on the output of an op-amp is either an emitter follower or a source follower. Simple as that - feedback from the emitter/source back to inverting input of the op-amp.

Additionally, because the source/emitter voltage "follows" the op-amps output signal, the gate/base loading effects are minimal hence when using a MOSFET you don't need to worry about gate capacitance.

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Andy aka
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This is really simple - use an N channel FET and have it as a source follower.

A unity gain buffer on the output of an op-amp is either an emitter follower or a source follower. Simple as that - feedback from the emitter/source back to inverting input of the op-amp.