Calculate the number of electron in a 100 by 100 by 10 nm piece of silicon...
A silicon PN junction diode is constructed using N-type silicon in which the Fermi level is 100 meV below the conduction band edge and P-type silicon in which the Fermi level is 120 meV above the valence band edge a) What are the majority and minority carrier concentrations on each side of the junction under thermal equilibrium? b) What is the value of the built-in voltage? c) Determine the width of the depletion region on both sides of the junction...
(0)If in GaAs, the Fermi level is 0.30 eV below the conduction band. [10] calculate the thermal equilibrium electron and hole concentration at room temperature. Bandgap of CaAs is 1.42 eV, the effective density of states of the conduction band at 300K is 4.7x10 cm and the effective density of states of the valence band is 7x10¹ cm³.L213(11)Identify and illustrate with required equations and diagrams, how energy and momentum are conserved in band to band transitions in indirect band gap...
Silicon at at T-300 K contains acceptor atoms at a concentration of Na-5x10A15 cmA-3. Donor atoms are added forming an n type compensated(counter doped) semiconductor such that the fermi level is 0.215 eV below the conduction band edge 4. a. What concentration of donor atoms were added. b. What were the concentration of holes and electrons before the silicon was counterdoped c. What are the electron and hole concentrations after the silicon was counter doped. Silicon at at T-300 K...
Silicon at at T-300 K contains acceptor atoms at a concentration of Na-5x10A15 cmA-3. Donor atoms are added forming an n type compensated(counter doped) semiconductor such that the fermi level is 0.215 eV below the conduction band edge 4. a. What concentration of donor atoms were added. b. What were the concentration of holes and electrons before the silicon was counterdoped c. What are the electron and hole concentrations after the silicon was counter doped. Silicon at at T-300 K...
(a) Assuming that the Fermi level is at the midgap in the intrinsic silicon, calculate the probability of finding an electron at the bottom of the conduction band (E=Ec) for three different temperatures: 0K, 20C, 100C? (b) How are these probabilities related to the probabilities of finding a hole at E=Ev, which is the top of the valence band? (c) A sample of silicon is doped with 1016 cm-3 of arsenic and 3x1016 cm-3 of boron. Calculate n, p, and...
7. Find the position of the intrinsic Fermi level with respect to Emidgap for silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide, and indium arsenide. Use the effective density of states values from problem 5. 8. a. Draw a band diagram for silicon doped 107/cmp-type and label the band gap and the position of the Fermi level. b. Draw a band diagram for gallium arsenide doped 10/cmn-type and label the band gap and the position of the Fermi level. c. Draw a band diagram...
Please help me 1. In degenerate p-type silicon, a. The Fermi energy is above the valence energy and below the intrinsic Fermi energy b. The Fermi energy is below the valence energy c. The Fermi energy is above the conduction energy d. The Fermi energy is below the conduction energy and above the intrinsic Fermi energy 2. A semiconductor has No 5X 1010 cm3 and N-2X 1018 cm2. It is a. b. C. d. N-type and electrons are the majority...
Question 8 Pure silicon at room temperature has an electron number density of about 5 × 1015 m3 and an equal density of holes In the valence band. Suppose that one of every 10° silicon atoms is replaced by a phosphorus atom. (a) Which type will the doped semiconductor be, n or p? (b) What charge carrier number density will the phosphorus add? (c) What is the ratio of the charge carrier number density (electrons in the conduction band and...
Calculate the thermal equilibrium number of electrons and holes at T = 300K for a Fermi energy level of 0.3 eV below the conduction band energy in germanium. Assume the bandgap energy of germanium is 0.66 eV O no = 3.17x1015 cm-3 Po = 7.90x1014 cm-3 O no = 1.12x1024 cm 3 Po = 6.53x1022 cm-3 O no = 9.70x1013 cm-3 po = 5.52x1012 cm-3 O no = 5.52x1019 cm-3
An electron is moving in a piece of lightly doped silicon under an applied electric field at 270C so that its drift velocity is one-tenth of its thermal velocity. Calculate the average number of collisions it will experience in traversing by drift a region 1 um wide. What is the voltage applied across this region? The mobility for electrons in Si is μ,-1500 cm3/V-sec and the effective mass is m 0.26m0.