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A SURVEY OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

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CURRENT-CONDUCTION MECHANISMS <strong>OF</strong><br />

<strong>SEMICONDUCTOR</strong> <strong>DEVICES</strong>.<br />

Mechanisms Examples<br />

Drift Resistor, most FETs<br />

Diffusion p-n junction, bipolar transistor<br />

Thermionic emission Schottky barrier, PDB diode<br />

Tunneling Tunnel diode, ohmic contact<br />

Recombination LED, p-i-n diode<br />

Generation Solar cell, photodetectors<br />

Avalanche IMPATT diode, Zener diode<br />

37/39 K. Ng

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