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Upon completing this chapter, students should be able to:
  1. Explore the characteristics of semiconductors and discover how engineers control the semiconductor properties to fabricate electronic devices.
  2. Characterize resistivity and insulators, semiconductors, and conductors.
  3. Develop the covalent bond and energy band models for semiconductors.
  4. Understand the concepts of band gap energy and intrinsic carrier concentration.
  5. Explore the behavior of the two charge carriers in semiconductors—electrons and holes.
  6. Discuss acceptor and donor impurities in semiconductors.
  7. Learn to control the electron and hole populations using impurity doping.
  8. Understand drift and diffusion currents in semiconductors.
  9. Explore the concepts of low-field mobility and velocity saturation.
  10. Discuss the dependence of mobility on doping level.
  11. Explore basic IC fabrication processes





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