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It is a three region reverse biased junction diode. A layer of intrinsic silicon is sandwiched between two heavily doped...

Let us see what happens if we connect a battery across an N type semiconductor as shown in below figure....

Rectifiers may be classified into the following two categories depending upon the period of conduction, Half wave rectifier Full wave...

An intrinsic semiconductor at absolute zero, behaves as a perfect insulator. The amount of energy required to break a covalent...

Three capacitor defects are detectable with an ohmmeter are short, open and partial short. If the capacitor is in a...

The V-I characteristic of an IGBT shows the plot of collector current IC versus collector emitter voltage VCE for various values of gate...

Commonly used semiconductor materials The example of semiconductor materials are germanium (Ge), silicon (Si), carbon (C), selenium (Se), gallium arsenide...

We have already discussed that, the current that a PN junction diode can conduct at a given voltage is dependent...

The optical transducer  convert light into electrical quantity. They are also called as photoelectric transducers. The optical transducer can be...

Extrinsic semiconductor We have already know that an intrinsic semiconductor has a negligible conductivity at room temperature. Therefore, it is...