acceptor-type semiconductor

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• P-type semiconductor — A P type semiconductor (P for Positive) is obtained by carrying out a process of doping: that is, adding a certain type of atoms to the semiconductor in order to increase the number of free charge carriers (in this case positive holes). When the… …   Wikipedia

• N-type semiconductor — N type semiconductors are a type of extrinsic semiconductor where the dopant atoms are capable of providing extra conduction electrons to the host material (e.g. phosphorus in silicon). This creates an excess of negative (n type) electron charge… …   Wikipedia

• P-Type Semiconductor —   A semiconductor in which holes carry the current; produced by doping an intrinsic semiconductor with an electron acceptor impurity (e.g., boron in silicon) …   Energy terms

• acceptor — [ak sep′tər, əksep′tər] n. [L] 1. one who accepts; specif., a person who signs a promise to pay a draft or bill of exchange 2. Chem. an atom that receives a pair of electrons from another atom to form a covalent bond with it 3. Electronics an… …   English World dictionary

• Semiconductor — Citations missing|date=March 2008A semiconductor is a solid material that has electrical conductivity in between a conductor and an insulator; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically. [. They are used in many… …   Wikipedia

• semiconductor device — ▪ electronics Introduction       electronic circuit component made from a material that is neither a good conductor nor a good insulator (hence semiconductor). Such devices have found wide applications because of their compactness, reliability,… …   Universalium

• semiconductor — /sem ee keuhn duk teuhr, sem uy /, n. 1. a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor …   Universalium

• Acceptor (semiconductors) — In semiconductors physics the term acceptor is used to generically indicate a dopant atom that added to a semiconductor can form p type regions. For example, when Silicon (Si), having four valence electrons, needs to be doped as an p type… …   Wikipedia

• Extrinsic semiconductor — An extrinsic semiconductor is a semiconductor that has been doped , that is, into which a doping agent has been introduced, giving it different electrical properties than the intrinsic (pure) semiconductor. Doping involves adding dopant atoms to… …   Wikipedia

• Doping (semiconductor) — In semiconductor production, doping intentionally introduces impurities into an extremely pure (also referred to as intrinsic) semiconductor for the purpose of modulating its electrical properties. The impurities are dependent upon the type of… …   Wikipedia

• Organic semiconductor — STM image of self assembled supramolecular chains of the organic semiconductor Quinacridone on Graphite. An organic semiconductor is an organic material with semiconductor properties. Single molecules, short chain (oligomers) and organic polymers …   Wikipedia