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Effects of DC offset and loading at the input of an envelope detector (simple diode demodula...

Often a small DC bias can help improve detection efficiency. Something around 100mV for a germanium diode. Often the DC bias is shared with the transistor bias such as in this design. A germanium d …
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Collpits FM Receiver

(Slope Demodulation). This is a result of the transistor rectifying the oscillations and altering the bias point of the circuit. …
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In this Foster Seeley discriminator, what is the purpose of capacitor C3?

It looks like this diagram was taken from this website that describes the operation: Foster Seeley Discriminator A more detailed description is here FM demodulation
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How do diodes work in an AM band application?

The detector you show is called an Envelope Detector (Wikipedia). You are missing a couple of important components: A resistor and a capacitor after the diode. When the diode conducts it charges …
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