Chapter 29: Current transport

Current transport

Junction diode and M-S diode too more complex. minority + majority current flow also.

Now think of an junction

or

Now think of an junction Fig. 14.6

 

Fig. 14.6

Effective electron mass of

 

Where and

Effective hole mass is

 

 

Where, and

The Bandgap is given by

 

for

and

 

 

and

The dielectric constant is

The electron affinity is

for

and

The conduction band density of states is related to by

 

Where for

and

The valence band density of states is

where