Electrical Properties
Electrical Properties: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Band Theory to Explain Electrical Behaviour of a Solid, Electrical Properties of Solids, Ferroelectricity & Anti-Ferro Electricity etc.
Important Questions on Electrical Properties
What is effect of Pyroelectric coefficient with Temperature?

What are applications of pyroeletricity?

Pyroelectricity is an application of dielectric properties of solid.

What is Pyroelectricity or Pyroelectric Material?


Which of the following are dielectric properties of solids:

To get an n-type semiconductor from silicon, it should be doped with a substance with valency:

The one that is extensively used as a piezoelectric material is:

Which of the following is true about the charge acquired by -type semiconductors?

Which kind of defects are introduced by doping?

Which of the following oxides behaves as conductor or insulator depending upon temperature?

Which of the following oxides shows electrical properties like metals?

Explain the following with suitable examples:
Pyroelectricity

n-type semiconductor is formed when trace amount of impurity is added to silicon. The number of electrons in the impurity atom must be

p-type semiconductor is formed when trace amount of impurity is added to silicon. The number of valence electrons in the impurity atom must be

The one that is extensively used as a piezoelectric material is

Doping of silicon with or increases the conductivity. The difference in these two cases is

In a gas lighter, mechanical energy is converted into electrical energy by using crystals of barium titanate. The barium titanate is

Electrostatic separation method is used to seperate PbS from ZnS. The property utilized in this method is

What we get if pure germanium is doped with arsenic?
