TLP contents
Main pages
- Aims
- Before you start
- Introduction
- Introduction to Energy Bands
- The Fermi–Dirac Distribution
- Charge Carriers in Semiconductors
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Semiconductors
- Direct and Indirect Band Gap Semiconductors
- Compound Semiconductors
- Behaviour of the Chemical Potential
- Metal–Semiconductor Junction – Rectifying Contact
- Metal–Semiconductor Junction – Ohmic Contact
- The p–n Junction
- Bipolar Transistor
- Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET)
- Summary
- Questions
- Going further
Media resources
- Simple energy bands (image)
- Overlapping energy bands (image)
- Fermi-Dirac distribution (image)
- Fermi-Dirac Distibution (image)
- Fermi-Dirac Distibution (image)
- Fermi-Dirac Distibution (image)
- Fermi-Dirac Distibution (image)
- Fermi-Dirac Distibution (image)
- Band gap diagram with donor level (image)
- Band gap diagram with acceptor level (image)
- Direct band gap semiconductor (image)
- Indirect band gap semiconductor (image)
- Temperature dependence of an intrinsic semiconductor (image)
- Temperature dependence of a n-type semiconductor (image)
- Temperature dependence of a p-type semiconductor (image)
- Current versus voltage plot (image)
- Current-Voltage characteristic of the p-n junction (image)
- Schematic of a MOSFET (image)
- Animation of Schottky Barrier (Flash)
- Animation of metal - p-type Schottky Barrier (Flash)
- Animation of Ohmic Contact (Flash)
- Animation of a p-n junction (Flash)
- Animation of bipolar transfer (Flash)
- Animation of MOSFET channel creation (Flash)
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