An undergraduate laboratory experiment for measuring the energy gap in semiconductors

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, , Citation A Sconza and G Torzo 1989 Eur. J. Phys. 10 123 DOI 10.1088/0143-0807/10/2/009

0143-0807/10/2/123

Abstract

A simple and inexpensive apparatus is described which allows fast and reliable measurements to be made of the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity in a semiconductor sample. The energy gap can be calculated from the data taken in the intrinsic region, and the temperature dependence of the majority carrier mobility can be deduced from measurements taken in the extrinsic region.

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