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Electric field of Schottky diode
Reference: Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits 3rd Ed. Richard Muller
I am trying to understand how to calculate the maximum electric field. The answer given in the book is $$E_{max} = \frac{-q ...
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Why do point contact diodes use wire whiskers?
I've recently been learning about the operating principles of various semiconductor devices, and I've run into difficulty regarding the point contact/metal-semiconductor diode. I can't find out why ...
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Why Schottky diode’s cut in voltage is less and the reverse saturation current is more than normal P-N junction diode? [closed]
I want to know how do we achieve lower forward voltage as much as 0.2-0.3 volt in schottky diodes.
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Metal semiconductor contacts
I’m headed back to the CNF (http://www.cnf.cornell.edu/) shortly.
It’s a user clean room facility for semiconductor processing.
My goal is to make some very simple samples, for use in student teaching ...
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How does a Schottky diode work?
There are no spare positive/negative charge carriers on the metal side of the diode, so the spare positive/negative charge carriers on the semiconductor side can not diffuse into the metal and ...
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