Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits.

12 lessons104 min5 simulations10 practice questions

Why does silicon sit between copper and glass in how well it conducts, and how can a few impurity atoms per million change that a thousandfold? This chapter explains conduction with energy bands, builds n-type and p-type material by doping, joins them into a p-n junction, and follows the junction diode from its one-way V-I curve to the rectifier and capacitor filter inside every mains power supply.

Also called: semiconductors · p-n junction diode · logic gates · rectifiers