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Subelement 2

Advanced Components and Circuits

Section 2-01

germanium, silicon, gallium arsenide, doping, P-type, N-type

What two elements widely used in semiconductor devices exhibit both metallic and non-metallic characteristics?

  • Galena and germanium
  • Correct Answer
    Silicon and germanium
  • Galena and bismuth
  • Silicon and gold
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In what application is gallium-arsenide used as a semiconductor material in preference to germanium or silicon?

  • In high-power circuits
  • Correct Answer
    At microwave frequencies
  • At very low frequencies
  • In bipolar transistors
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What type of semiconductor material contains fewer free electrons than pure germanium or silicon crystals?

  • Correct Answer
    P-type
  • N-type
  • Bipolar type
  • Superconductor type
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What type of semiconductor material contains more free electrons than pure germanium or silicon crystals?

  • Correct Answer
    N-type
  • P-type
  • Bipolar
  • Superconductor
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What are the majority charge carriers in P-type semiconductor material?

  • Free electrons
  • Free protrons
  • Correct Answer
    Holes
  • Free neutrons
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What are the majority charge carriers in N-type semiconductor material?

  • Holes
  • Free protrons
  • Free neutrons
  • Correct Answer
    Free electrons
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Silicon, in its pure form, is:

  • a superconductor
  • Correct Answer
    an insulator
  • a semiconductor
  • conductor
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An element which is sometimes an insulator and sometimes a conductor is called a:

  • intrinsic conductor
  • N-type conductor
  • P-type conductor
  • Correct Answer
    semiconductor
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Which of the following materials is used to make a semiconductor?

  • tantalum
  • copper
  • Correct Answer
    silicon
  • sulphur
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Substances such as silicon in a pure state are usually good:

  • conductors
  • tuned circuits
  • inductors
  • Correct Answer
    insulators
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A semiconductor is said to be doped when it has added to it small quantities of:

  • protons
  • ions
  • electrons
  • Correct Answer
    impurities
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