Physics 315:
Exmples of
qualitative questions relating to material in handouts:
Do electrons
in tetrahedral bonding states correspond to the conduction or the valence band
in Si and Ge?
What is the
difference between a direct and an indirect bandgap in a semiconductor?
What is an n-type? p-type? semiconductor.
What is The Mőssbauer effect?
What is an intrinsic
semiconductor?
Why is the the number of
conduction electrons in an intrinsic material proportiona to
exp(-ßEgap/2) and not exp(-ßEgap)?
Describe the setup for the Hall effect?
Why does the pn junction act like
a rectifier?
What is the mechanism by which
the chemical potential stays close to the top of the valence band on the p-side,
and close to the bottom of the conduction band on the n-side of an pn junction?
State Bloch's theorem.