The resistivity of semiconductor is given by formula
Resistivity = carrier concentration × electronic charge
= 10^17 × 1.6 × 10^-19
= 1.6×10^-2
= 0.016
The intransic carrier concentration of silicon diode is dependent on temperature but has constant value at room temperature an doping concentrations between 10^3 to 10^18 and the value is
1.5 × 10^10 cm-3
P2.1. Determine the room temperature carrier concentrations and resistiv- ity for silicon doped with phosphorus to...
Determine the room temperature carrier concentrations and resistivity for a silicon wafer doped with boron to a concentration of 1015 cm3
A silicon semiconductor material is doped with 3x1015/cm of phosphorous atoms at room temperature (300°K). Given: Electron mobility is 1450 cm2/V-s, Hole mobility is 380 cm?/V-s, Intrinsic carrier concentration (n) of Si at room temperature (300°K) 1.5x 101%cm³. Calculate the conductivity of the material
P4. a. Consider Si doped with P at 2x10^16 cm^-3. determine the carrier concentrations ni, p, and n at T = 300 K. b. Consider a semiconductor with ni = 2.4x10^13cm-3 that is doped such that ND=5x10^13cm^-3. Determine the carrier concentrations n and p. c. Consider a compensation Ge semiconductor with ni = 2.4x10^13 cm^-3 doped at concentration NA=5x10^13 cm^-3. Determine the thermal equilibrium carrier concentration n and p.
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...
P4. Find the resistivity at T 300 K for a silicon sample doped with 1 x 10cm of phosphorus (P) atoms, 8.5 x 10 cm of arsenic (As) atoms, and 1.2 x 103 cm3 of boron (B) atoms. Assume that the impurities are completely ionized and the mobilities are μ,-1500 cm2/V-s, μ,-500 cm2/V-s, independent of impurity concentrations. Also assume intrinsic carrier concentration of Si n 1.5 x 10 cm). Hint!!; we can usually use the rule for compensated semiconductors as...
2. (a) A piece of silicon is doped with 5x107/cm boron atoms. Find the hole and electron concentrations at room temperature (20°C) and at 150°C. (b) Calculate the resistance of the silicon piece in part (a), if it has length of 10 um and cross-section of 10 um'. Use mobility values from the mobility vs carrier concentration plot from lecture slides. (c) Repeat steps (a) and (b) for the Si doped with 104 cm boron atoms. What you mention for...
3. A silicon npn bipolar transistor is uniformly doped and biased in the forward active region with the base-collector junction reverse biased by 2.5 V. The metallurgical base width is 1.5 μm. The emitter, base collector doping concentrations are 5 × 1017, 1016, 2 × 1015 cm-3 respectively. a. At T-300 K, calculate the base-emitter voltage at which the minority carrier electron concentration at x-0 is 20% of the majority carrier hole concentration. At this voltage calculate the minority carrier...
2.) Starting with intrinsic silicon with mobilities of n = 1350 cm2 N s and = 480 cm2 Nis: a. Find the resistivity p of the silicon. b. If the silicon is now doped with 101/cm-of B (Boron), find the majority and minority carrier concentrations. What is the density of fixed charge in the material (immobile ions)? C. What type of material is this (n type or p type)? d. What is the majority carrier (hole or electron)? e. Find...
Consider an abrupt p-n junction consisted of a p-side silicon doped with 1.0E+15 cm-3 acceptors and an n- side silicon doped with 1.0E+15 cm-3 donors at room temperature (no donors in p-side and no acceptors in n-side). a. Calculate the Fermi levels on each side of the junction with respect to Ei. Use the Special Conditions to find the concentrations. b. Calculate the contact potential. c .Calculate the ratio, Xpo/Xno
The intrinsic tempature of a semiconductor is the tempature at wich the intrisic carrier concentration equels the imparity concentration. Find the intrinsic tempature for a silicon sample doped with 10^15 phosphorus atoms/cm^2