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Download Solution PDFA p-type semiconductor carries net:
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Option 3 : Zero charge
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Download Solution PDFCONCEPT:
- Semiconductor: A solid substance that has a conductivity between an insulator and metals.
- Semiconductors have conductivity due to many factors like the addition of an impurity or because of temperature effects.
- N-type semiconductors: An extrinsic semiconductor where the dopant atoms provide extra conduction electrons to the host material like Phosphorus P in Silicon Si.
- This creates an excess of negative (n-type) electron charge carriers that are able to move freely.
- P-type semiconductors: A semiconductor, when the impurity with trivalency is added to pure semiconductors, then it is known as a p-type semiconductor.
- Impurities with trivalency such as Boron (B), Gallium (Ga), Indium(In), Aluminium(Al), etc are called acceptor impurity.
EXPLANATION:
- P-type and N-type materials are NOT positively and negatively charged.
- because atoms are electrically neutral.
- N-type materials have electrons or negative charges that are majority carriers and holes are minority carriers.
- So it has mainly electrons or negative charge carriers that can move freely, but it is still neutral because the fixed donor atoms, having donated electrons, are positive.
- Thus we can say that the n-type of semiconductor is neutral.
- Hence option 3 is correct.
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