


Problem 5. (10 pts) A diode has an area of 104 cm’ and the following properties...
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Problem 4: pn Junction Current Distributions Consider a Si pn step junction diode maintained at room temperature, with p-side and n-side dopant concentrations NA 1016 cm3 and Np-2x1016 cm3, respectively. (You may assume that each side is uncompensated.) The minority carrier recombination lifetimes are τ,-10-6 s and τ,-10-7 s on the p-side and n-side, respectively a) Calculate the minority carrier densities at the edges of the depletion region when the applied...
A Si PN junction diode has constant doping at both sides, Na and Nd in P and N side, respectively. The width of the P side is W and the width of the N side is L: W << Le and L >> Lh. Le and Lh are the minority carrier diffusion length in each side. The lifetime of both minority carriers is τ. Assume the contacts at both ends of the PN junction are Omic contact. The PN junction...
3.13 Si pn junction Consider a long pn junction diode with an acceptor doping Naof 1018 cm-3 on the p-side and donor concentration of Nj on the n-side. The diode is forward biased and has a voltage of 0.6 V across it. The diode cross-sectional area is 1 mm2. The minority carrier recombination time, T, depends on the total dopant concentration, Ndopant (cm), through the following approximate empirical relation (5x 10-7)/(1 + 2 10-17N1°pan.) where T is in seconds. (a)...
An important application of PN diodes is their use as photodetectors. The optical radiation creates electron-hole pairs in the depletion region and regions within the diffusion lengths near the depletion edges. These e-h pairs are collected as a photocurrent. The e-h pairs are generated at the rate GL 1022 cm-3s1. Calculate the photocurrent. Consider a silicon PN diode at 300K with following parameters Equation for photocurrent calculation: AGL (W Ln Lp) A 104 um2 Na = 2 x 1016 cm-3...
P3. For an ideal abrupt silicon (Si) P*N diode with doping concentrations Na = 1 x 107 cm3 and N 1 x 105 cm. (a) Find the stored minority carriers density in the N-side neutral region (infinitely long comparing with Lp and Ln) when a forward bias of 1 V is applied. (b) Calculate the hole current density in the region of (a) at x, 0. (Assume the average diffusion length of hole is 5 um the average carrier life...
P3. For an ideal abrupt silicon (Si) P*N diode with doping concentrations Na = 1 x 107 cm3 and N 1 x 105 cm. (a) Find the stored minority carriers density in the N-side neutral region (infinitely long comparing with Lp and Ln) when a forward bias of 1 V is applied. (b) Calculate the hole current density in the region of (a) at x, 0. (Assume the average diffusion length of hole is 5 um the average carrier life...
Consider a silicon pn junction at T = 300 K, NA-Np - 4x106cm. The minority carrier lifetimes are tn = Tp=1 us. The junction is forward biased with V, -0.6V. The minority carrier diffusion coefficients are D = 20 cm²/s, D = 10 cm²/s. n;= 1.5x100cm, kt/e = 0.026V Depletion region n-type p-type a) (5 points) Do we have low-level injection? b) (10 points) Calculate the electron concentration at x = -(Xp + Ln) where L, is the electron diffusion...
Consider a silicon pn step junction diode with NA-1x1018 cm3 and No 1x1017cm-3, maintained at T 300K. The minority carrier lifetimes in the p-side and n-side are τη-10-8 s and Tp-10-7 s, respectively. a) Calculate the minority carrier densities at the edges of the depletion region when the applied voltage (VA) is 0.6 V. of the junction, for the applied bias voltage of part (a) densities are equal in magnitude, for the applied voltage of part (a). b) Sketch the...
1. Consider a p-n junction diode with doping concentrations: NA6.5x1015 cm3 and ND 107 cm3 in the p- and n-sides, respectively. (a) Calculate the free electron and hole concentrations in both p- and n-sides' neutral regions. (b) Find the barrier height and the built-in voltage. (c) Sketch the energy band diagram of the complete p-n junction. Mark all energy levels including the barrier height and show the energy level values. (d) Calculate the total depletion width under zero bias. (e)...
3. A silicon step junction has uniform impurity doping concentrations of N. 5 x 1015 cm-3 and Nd = 1 x 1015 cm-, and a cross-sectional area of A-|0-4 cm2. Let tao -0.4 s and tpo 0.1 us. Consider the geometry in Figure.Calculate (a) the ideal reverse saturation current due to holes, (b) the ideal reverse saturation current due to electrons, (c) the hole concentration at a, if V V and (d) the electron current at x = x" +...