Extrinsic semiconductors P-type | Class 12 (India) | Physics | Khan Academy



In this video, we will explore the P-type semiconductors.
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42 Comments

  1. Before watching this video I was in a feeling that i couldnot understand this topic , and I was brainless and after watching this video made me to realise that they hadn't given correct reason to satisfy me. Now 100% satisfaction. Thankyou

  2. This series is single handedly the best available series for anyone to understand semiconductors. Thank you Mr. Shenoy and Khan Academy for making this high quality content available for us for free.

  3. 5:29 sir u earlier said that acc. toh PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE, no 2 electrons can have the same energy level, though here at acceptor energy level there exists enormous electrons, how?

  4. A question comes up. With N type doping, electrons move into the conduction band. This is easy to see, But with P type, it appears holes have not moved up there because these are not real particles. And it looks to me as if the electrons coming out to leave holes behind do not move into the conduction band either, but into the acceptor band, which is lower down. So how can conduction occur? Or put it another way, does P-type doped Si have higher resistance than N-type?

  5. Good explanation. I've also seen some other of these videos and they're really helpful.

    There are more electrons than holes in P type semiconductors. Isn't it how they're involved in conduction that makes them called the majority charge carriers?

  6. Sir, is the point for this process of conduction that the electrons present is Ea state can conduct electricity and it now doesn't need to enter the conduction band as it had to in intrinsic ones ?

  7. Sir, could u please tell me , how the electrons from the valence band ( which is of silicon) , occupy the vacant spaces of acceptor level , which is actually present in the forbidden energy gap( in which electrons of Si atom ) are forbidden to enter…?

  8. in the last video you told that group 16 cannot be used in n type because the donor level of group 16 is too low ,so the V.B electrons can't move to donor level, leaving a hole behind?

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