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CIRCUIT COMPONENTS · Semiconductor materials and devices: semiconductor materials; bipolar junction transistors; operation and types of field-effect transistors

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Which of the following semiconductor materials contains excess free electrons?

  1. AN-type
  2. BP-type
  3. CBipolar
  4. DInsulated gate
Why Pure silicon or germanium is doped with impurity atoms to change its conduction. Adding a donor impurity with five valence electrons (phosphorus, arsenic, antimony) leaves one electron per atom with no bond to fill, so the majority carriers are free electrons. That material is called N-type because the mobile charge carriers are Negative.
Watch out P-type is the opposite: it is doped with a trivalent acceptor such as boron or indium, leaving holes (missing electrons) as the majority carrier. Bipolar and insulated gate are transistor construction terms, not semiconductor material types.
N = Negative carriers = free electrons; P = Positive carriers = holes.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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