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What is the relation between reverse saturation current and leakage current in a BJT?

detective_anubhav

Oct 8, 2021
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I have been studying Studying Donald Neamen's Electronic Circuits 4th edition and Sedra Smith's Microelectronics 7th edition for quite some time now. I have been self studying. After searching extensively on Internet as well as trying to understand from the books, I have not been able to differentiate between two quantities in the context of BJT.

These two quantities are:
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and

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According to Sedra Smith,
del3.jpg
is the collector base reverse current. Whereas
del4.jpg
is the saturation or scale current given by

del1.jpg


del2.jpg


I have been wondering are these two quantities same or share some relation between them because I find the name for both these quantities being used inter-changeably at many places which is quite confusing and I believe they are not the same.

Also, I am confused which current is being referred to when on Internet I find the term "reverse saturation current". Searching on Internet the term "reverse saturation current" gives two kinds of sources: one referring it as
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and the other referring it as
del3.jpg
. Another similar quantity is
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.
 
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