Applied Physics

GS-122

By Atif M.Khokhar

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  Intro Semiconductors
 Types of Semiconductors
 Formation of Extrinsic Semiconductors (Doping)
 Properties of Extrinsic Semiconductors
 Advantages of Doping
 Current flow in Extrinsic Semiconductors

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 You will be able to

 Understand the Lack in Electrical properties of

Intrinsic Semiconductors
 Understand the properties of Extrinsic
Semiconductors Material
 Get the information of Impurity Elements
 Get the awareness of Advantages of adding
impurity

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Germanium

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  Material for which gap between valence band and
conduction band is small (gap width in Si is 1.1 eV, in Ge 0.7
eV).

 At T = 0, there are no electrons in the conduction band, and

the semiconductor does not conduct (lack of free charge
carriers)

 At T > 0, some fraction of electrons have sufficient thermal

kinetic energy to overcome the gap and jump to the
conduction band; fraction rises with temperature;
e.g. At 20o C (293 K), Si has 0.9x1010 conduction electrons
per cubic centimeter; at 50o C (323 K) there are 7.4x1010 .

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  Electrons moving to conduction band leave “hole”
(covalent bond with missing electron) behind under
influence of applied electric field, neighboring
electrons can jump into the hole, thus creating a new
hole.
 Holes can move under the influence of an applied
electric field, just like electrons both contribute to
conduction.
 In pure Si and Ge, there are equally many holes
(“p-type charge carriers”) as there are conduction
electrons (“n-type charge carriers”)pure
semiconductors also called “intrinsic Semiconductors”.

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Silicon Energy Bands
At finite temperatures, the number of electrons which reach the
conduction band and contribute to current can be modeled by the
Fermi function. That current is small compared to that indoped
semiconductors under the same conditions.

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Germanium Energy Bands
At finite temperatures, the number of electrons which reach the conduction
band and contribute to current can be modeled by the Fermi function. That
current is small compared to that in doped semiconductors under the same
conditions.

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Doping
•If we purposely include some “impurities” in
the crystal, we can add more electrons.
• This works if the impurity atoms have one
more electron per atom than the host
semiconductor.
• Since we increase # of electrons, Fermi energy
increases
• Intrinsic means no doping.

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  donor (N-type) impurities:
 dopant with 5 valence electrons (e.g. P, As, Sb)
 4 electrons used for covalent bonds with surrounding Si atoms,
one electron “left over”;
 left over electron is only loosely bound only small amount of
energy needed to lift it into conduction band (0.05 eV in Si)
 “n-type semiconductor”, has conduction electrons, no
holes (apart from the few intrinsic holes)

example: doping fraction of 10-8 Sb in Si yields about

5x1016 conduction electrons per cubic centimeter at room
temperature, i.e. gain of 5x106 over intrinsic Si.

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 T= 0 K

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Silicon Doping (Formation of N-type)

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N-type Semiconductors Current

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We can do the whole exercise
again for HOLES

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  Acceptor (p-type) impurities:

 dopant with 3 valence electrons (e.g. B, Al, Ga, In) only 3 of

the 4 covalent bonds filled

 vacancy in the fourth covalent bond  Hole

 “p-type semiconductor”, has mobile holes, very few

mobile electrons (only the intrinsic ones).

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Silicon Doping (Formation of P-type)

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P-type Semiconductors Current

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Silicon Doping (Summary)

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Silicon Doping (Energy States)

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 advantages of doped semiconductors:

Can “tune” conductivity by choice of doping

fraction
can choose “majority carrier” (electron or hole)
can vary doping fraction and/or majority
carrier within piece of semiconductor
 can make “p-n junctions” (diodes) and “transistors”
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