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Can a DC voltage excite a pure semiconductor (or insulator) from the valence band to the conduction band?
I have a question I am sticking around and can't find a satisfying answer. Say I have an intrinsic semidonductor at zero Kelvin (no electrons in conduction band). I apply a DC voltage across it. Can ...
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Current Amplification in Common Base Transistor
How does a common base transistor amplify current if a small part of its emitter current gets divided into base current and the rest goes to collector current? If the input signal is applied to the ...
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Electric fields and electric potentials in semiconductors
The zener diode is heavilier doped than a normal diode , that is why its depletion region is smaller than the delpetion region of a normal diode and that is why the electric field is very strong.Zener ...
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Zener diode electric field working principle
Well I recently saw a video from khan academy about zener diodes.This video was suggested by another member of Stack Exchange Physics who I thank him very much . But I didnt understand some things:...
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