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Transistors are typically operated in one of two (well, four) regions: saturation/cutoff or linear (forward or reverse).

When used as amplifiers, transistors are operated in the linear region. If you look at a transistor's V-I (voltage - current) characteristic, you'll see the linear region is somewhere "in the middle", where there is sufficient voltage applied (so current flows), but not to much (so the transistor is not saturated). To get transistors to operate in this middle region, DC circuits are used to bias the transistor to the center of the linear region. So the transistor is working on both AC (the signal applied to the input that is amplified at the output) and DC (the biasing network to allow the transistor to operate as a linear amplifier).

When used in saturation/cutoff, the transistor is being used as a switch (on/off). this is common in logic devices (gates, arrays, CPUs, etc.). The input to these devices is typically an irregular AC wave (a square wave of information). A power source is needed that is DC, however, to provide the power to drive the output to one state or the other.

So proper transistor operation requires both AC (as the signal) and DC (as the biasing network, or power source).

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Diode is a device which allows the current through it, when we apply above the break down voltage on it. which means 0.7v for silicon diode. and 0.3 volt for germanium diode.

here if we apply ac voltage on diode, it will pass only the +ve half cycle of ac. it will block only the negative half cycle of ac.

I mean diode allows only the partial current of ac.

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yes, it can convert a.c to d.c, cause a transister has diodes inside them. u just has to figure out the anode and cathode.

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transistors work on dc not ac however they can have ac signalss fed into them

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ya it will work in both ac and dc

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