Electronic Devices - Semiconductors - Discussion
Discussion Forum : Semiconductors - True or False (Q.No. 9)
9.
The silicon material used in semiconductors is extremely pure with no additives.
Discussion:
4 comments Page 1 of 1.
Claude said:
4 years ago
Pure silicon is not a semiconductor, it is an insulator, only through heating it would become a semiconductor. Thus silicon materials used as semiconductors are not extremely pure with no additives.
Dipti swaroop said:
8 years ago
We can't use pure silicon in semiconductors.
R.MANIKANDAN said:
1 decade ago
But why option B is right because example of pure semiconductor is silicon.
Atif sakhi said:
1 decade ago
Because it contains NEGATIVE type carriers (electron), as it name shows.
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