Semiconductor Devices
Telangana Open School (TOSS) · Class 12 · Physics
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Revise & Test
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What to Focus On
- Metals: Low resistivity, overlapping valence and conduction bands.
- Insulators: High resistivity, large forbidden gap (>3 eV).
- Semiconductors: Moderate resistivity, small forbidden gap (~1 eV).
- Intrinsic semiconductors are pure; electrons and holes are equal in number.
- Doping introduces impurities to increase conductivity.
- n-type: Doped with pentavalent atoms; electrons are majority carriers.
- Diffusion of carriers creates a depletion region.
- Depletion region has immobile ions and a built-in potential barrier.
- Barrier potential: ~0.7 V (Si), ~0.3 V (Ge).
Common Mistakes to Avoid
n-type semiconductors are negatively charged because they have extra electrons.
Holes are just empty spaces — they don’t really move.
The depletion region in a p-n junction has no charge at all.
Memory Tips
Classification of materials: Metals, Semiconductors, Insulators based on resistivity
Energy bands: Valence band, Conduction band, Forbidden gap
Intrinsic vs Extrinsic semiconductors
n-type and p-type semiconductors
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