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... impurity interaction shows any striking temperature dependence . Thus at sufficiently low temperatures impurity scattering will be the dominant source of collisions in any real specimen . This scattering will be elastic provided that ...
... impurity interaction shows any striking temperature dependence . Thus at sufficiently low temperatures impurity scattering will be the dominant source of collisions in any real specimen . This scattering will be elastic provided that ...
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... impurity concentration too high ) , condition ( 28.36 ) eventually fails to hold , and either na / Na or Pa / Na ( but not both ) ceases to be negligible , i.e. , one of the impurity types is no longer fully ionized by thermal ...
... impurity concentration too high ) , condition ( 28.36 ) eventually fails to hold , and either na / Na or Pa / Na ( but not both ) ceases to be negligible , i.e. , one of the impurity types is no longer fully ionized by thermal ...
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... impurity concentration . We shall illustrate the physics of inhomogeneous semiconductors by considering the simplest example , the p - n junction . This is a semiconducting crystal in which the impurity concentration varies only along a ...
... impurity concentration . We shall illustrate the physics of inhomogeneous semiconductors by considering the simplest example , the p - n junction . This is a semiconducting crystal in which the impurity concentration varies only along a ...
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The Drude Theory of Metals | 1 |
The Sommerfeld Theory of Metals | 29 |
Failures of the Free Electron Model | 57 |
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