The Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
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Chapter 21, Problem 18CQ
To determine
The doping of silicon with gallium make the resulting semiconductor an n type or p type semiconductor and explain the reason.
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