Chapter 10: Q17CQ (page 467)
In a concise yet fairly comprehensive way. explain why doped semiconductors are so pervasive in modern technology.
Two doped semiconductors are used to make a diode, which only allows the current to pass in one direction.
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Carbon(diamond) and silicon have the same covalent crystal structure, yet diamond is transparent while silicon is opaque to visible light. Argue that this should be the case based only on the difference in band gaps roughly 5 eV for diamond in eV is silicon.
For the four kinds of crystal binding – covalent, ionic, metallic, and molecular- how would the destiny of valence electrons vary throughout the solid? Would it be constant, centered on the atoms, or largest between the atoms? Or would it alternate, with a net charge density positive at one atom and negative at the next?
Question: - Verify using equation (10-12) that the effective mass of a free particle is m.
The accompanying diagram shows resistivity (reciprocal of conductivity) data for four solid materials from 77Kto 273K. scaled so that the maximum value plotted for each material is 1. Two are metals, one of which undergoes a transition between ordered and disordered spins in this temperature range. Speculate as to which plots correspond to these two metals and what the other two materials might be. Explain your reasoning.
The energy necessary to break the ionic bond between a sodium ion and a fluorine ion is . The energy necessary to separate the sodium and fluorine ions that form the ionic crystal is per ion pair. Explain the difference qualitatively.
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