Extrinsic Semiconductors

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Extrinsic Semiconductors: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as pentavalent impurities, trivalent impurities, doping, n-type semiconductor, and p-type semiconductor.

Important Questions on Extrinsic Semiconductors

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In a p-type semiconductor, which of the following statement is true?

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For a pure Si crystal has 5×1028 atom $\mathrm{m}^{-3}$. It is doped by 1 PPM concentration of pentavalent As. Calculate the number of electron & holes.
(Given that ni=1.5×1016 m-3 )

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In a pure semiconductor crystal of Si, if antimony is added then what type of extrinsic semiconductor is obtained. Draw the energy band diagram of this extrinsic semiconductor so formed.

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Explain the process of doping.

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When an intrinsic semiconductor such as Si is doped with a small amount of a trivalent impurity like boron

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The base region of a silicon n-p-n transistor is obtained by doping Si with either

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The Fermi level for an extrinsic ‘n’ type semiconductor:

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To obtain electrons as majority charge carriers in a semiconductor the impurity mixed is

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Why is an extrinsic semiconductor electrically neutral

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Why are n-type and p-type semiconductor electrically neutral

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Explain the charge neutrality of Extrinsic Semiconductors

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What are minority current carriers in Extrinsic semiconductor.

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Which of the following energy band diagram shows the N-type semiconductor

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In n-type semiconductor, Silicon is doped with

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What is type of majority charge carriers present in p-type semiconductor?

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No crystal is found to be prefect at room temperature. The defects present in the crystals can be stoichiometric or non-stoichiometric. Due to nonstoichiometric defects, the formula of the ionic compound is different from the ideal formula. For example, the ideal formula of ferrous oxide should be FeO but actually in one sample, it was found to be Fe0.93O. This is because the crystal may have some ferric ions in place of ferrous ions. These defects change the properties of the crystals. In some cases, defects are introduced to have crystals of desired properties as required in the field of electronics. Doping of elements of Group 14 with those of Group 13 or 15 is most common. In ionic compounds, usually impurities are introduced in which the cation has higher valency than the cation of the parent crystal, e.g., SrCl2 into NaCl.

Which one of the following doping will produce p-type semiconductor ?

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Holes are majority carriers in n-type semiconductor while electrons are majority carries in p-type semiconductor.

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A P-type semiconductor has more holes than electrons.

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The hole density (ηh) and electron density (ne) in p-type semiconductors are related as