Semiconductors (Dec. 7, 13 and 14)
Schema della sezione
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Homogeneous semiconductors: materials (elemental and compounds), typical band structures, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors. Intrinsic case: number of carriers in thermal equilibrium. Extrinsic semiconductors: donor and acceptor levels. (Ch. 28; excluding: population of impurity levels in thermal equilibrium, eqs. 28.30-28.34)
The p-n junction in equilibrium (Ch. 29, first part)
Exercises (see details below)