Module 2 : Systems under technological importance

Lecture 12 : Inorganic semiconductors -Magnetic materials - 2

 

Semiconductor based Magnetic Materials

Basics of semiconductor physics

Undoped (intrinsic) semiconductors:

Band structure has energy gap Eg at the Fermi energy

Conduction only if electrons are excited (e.g., thermally, optically) over the gap

Same density of electrons in conduction band and holes in valence band:

 

Non-degenerate electron/hole gas in bands (i.e., no Fermi sea), transport similar to classical charged gas