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PIP 0255
INTRODUCTION to PHYSICS

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Chapter 11
Electronics

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PIP 0255 INTRODUCTION to PHYSICS

1. Define the term “semiconductor”.

2. What happens when heat is added to silicon?
3. Describe how electron and hole current is produced in intrinsic silicon.
4 Define the following terms:
a. Holes
b. Electron hole pair
c. Acceptor atoms
d. Donor atoms
e. Recombination
f. Valance electrons
g. Free electrons
h. Ionization

5. Describe the process of doping and explain how it alters the atomic structure of
silicon.
6. What are the purposes of doping n intrinsic semiconductor material?
7. Illustrate and explain how
a. N-type semiconductor is formed
b. P-type semiconductor is formed
8. By what process are the majority carriers produced.
9. Holes in an n-type semiconductor are
a. Minority carriers that are thermally produced
b. Minority carriers that are produced by doping
c. Majority carriers that are thermally produced
d. Majority carriers that are thermally produced
10. When pn junction is forward biased,
a. The only current is hole current
b. The only current is electron current
c. The only current produced by majority carriers
d. The current is produced by both holes and electrons.
11. Sketch diagrams to show how a pn junction can be reverse-biased and forward
biased.
12. Explain how a diode is forward bias and reverse biased.

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