04 semiconductor in equilibrium
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Chapter 4
The Semiconductor in Equilibrium
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Topics
• Thermal-equilibrium concentration of electron and holes• Intrinsic carrier concentration• Intrinsic Fermi-level position• Dopant atoms and energy levels• Extrinsic carrier concentration and temperature dependence• Ionization energy of dopant atoms in silicon• Fermi level in extrinsic semiconductor• Degenerate semiconductors• Fermi level in two systems in contact with each other and
at thermal equilibrium.
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Why?• Current is determined by flow rate and density of
charge carriers. • The density of electron and holes are related to the
density of states function and the Fermi distribution (or probability) function.
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Conduction band
Valence band
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Density of quantum states per unit volume at energy E
For conduction band
For valence band
Density of states
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The probability that a quantum state at an energy E will be occupied by an electron
The ratio between filled and total quantum states at any energy E
Fermi-Dirac distribution (or probability) function
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Fermi-Dirac distribution (or probability) function
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Distribution of electron and holes
n ( E ) = g c ( E ) f F ( E )
p ( E ) = g v ( E ) 1 − f F ( E )[ ]
Number of electrons at E(in conduction band)
Density of states at E Fermi-Dirac probability function
Number of holes at E (in valence band)
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conduction band
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valence band
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Electron concentration
n 0 = D e n s i t y o f s t a t e s ∗ P r o b a b i l i t y f u n c t i o n d EB o t t o m o f c o n d u c t i o n b a n d
T o p o f c o n d u c t i o n b a n d
∫
EC
∞
The equation is valid for both intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
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Condition:E - EF >> kT
Boltzman approximation
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Comparison of Fermi-Dirac probability function and Maxwell-Boltzmann approximation
3kT
Maxwell-Boltzmann approximation and Fermi-Dirac function are within 5% of each other when E-EF 3KT≥
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n0
Gamma function:
1
2π
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Nc= effective density of states function in the conduction band
The equation is valid for both intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
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Hole concentration
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Nv= effective density of states function in the valence band
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Nc(cm-3) Nv(cm-3) mn*/m0 mp*/m0
Si 2.8 x 1019 1.04 x 1019 1.08 0.56
Gallium Arsenide 4.7 x 1017 7.0 x 1018 0.067 0.48
Germanium 1.04 x 1019 6.0 x 1018 0.55 0.37
Effective density of states function and effective mass values
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Intrinsic semiconductor
• Intrinsic electron concentration = Intrinsic hole concentration
n i = p i
Intrinsic carrier concentration
Why?
• charge carriers due to thermal excitation• thermally generated electrons and holes always created in pairs.
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INTRINSIC SemiconductorIntrinsic Fermi level
Intrinsic carrier concentration
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Semiconductor Ni
Silicon 1.5 x 1010 cm-3
Gallium Arsenide 1.8 x 106 cm-3
Germanium 2.4 x 1013 cm-3
Commonly accepted values of ni at T=300K
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ekTE
NNn gvci 101010 log
2)(log
21)(log −=
Plot of log10(ni) vs. 1/T is straight line.
Slope is negative. From the slope Eg can be calculated
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Application of the intrinsic semiconductors
• High Electron Mobility Transistor
• High resistivity substrate for RF circuits
• amorphous-Si Solar Cells
Structure of solar cell
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Conduction band
Valence band
Where is the intrinsic Fermi level?
EFi (Intrinsic Fermi level): EF at which electron and hole concentration becomes equal
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Even in intrinsic semiconductor, Fermi level is not exactly at centre between conduction and valence bands.
Electron concentration Hole concentration
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Intrinsic silicon lattice
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Acceptor and Donor Impurities:
• In Si four electrons in the valence shell participate in bonding.• atom with more than 4 valence electrons donor impurity• less than 4 acceptor impurity.
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Silicon lattice doped with donor impurity
Donor Impurity:
• At very low temperature, the donor (excess) electron is still bound to the impurity atom.• However, the donor electron is loosely bound to the impurity atom and can become free with small amount of thermal energy. Impurity atom is then ionized and positively charged.
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• little energy required to move donor electrons from donor states to conduction band.• positively charged donor ions are fixed but donor electrons in the conduction band can move through the crystal.
Donor electron energy level:
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Acceptor Impurity:
• One covalent bond is incomplete for Si.• With little thermal energy, a valence electron can break from another covalent bond and can occupy this position, thus creating a hole at the location of the broken covalent bond.• The acceptor impurity is then ionized and negatively charged.
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Acceptor Energy Level:
• little energy required to move valence electrons to acceptor levels.• negatively charged acceptor ions are fixed but holes in the valence band can move through the crystal.
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Electron concentration vs. temperature showing partial ionization, extrinsic and intrinsic regions.
Electron concentration vs. temperature in n-type semiconductor
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Electron concentration vs. temperature in extrinsic semiconductor
• At low temperatures, donor impurities are partially ionized. As temperature increases the percentage of ionized donor impurities also increases
• Once all donor impurities are ionized, there is no increase in carrier concentration. Even though intrinsic carrier concentration continues to increase, it is still small compared to extrinsic concentration.
•At high temperatures, intrinsic carrier concentration dominates and electron concentration continues to increase again.
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The ionization energy is the energy necessary to remove an electron from the neutral atom.
In case of donor atoms, the ionization energy is the energy necessary to elevate an electron from the donor level to conduction band.
Ionization energy:
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• In the next few slides, we will calculate the approximate ionization energy for donor atoms.
•We use Bohr atomic model for these calculations. For hydrogen atom, Bohr model and quantum mechanics give similar results.
•Donor impurity atom can be visualized as one donor electron orbiting the positively charged donor ion. This condition is similar to that in a hydrogen atom.
•However we have to consider permittivity of silicon instead of permittivity of free space.
Ionization energy:
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Angular Momentum Quantization
• Bohr proposed that circumference of electron orbit = integer number of wavelengths
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Then angular momentum,
angular momentum of electron is quantized.
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Ionization energy calculation:
Centripetal forceCoulomb attraction force
Angular momentum quantization
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As defined in Chapter 2, Bohr radius =
26.0m
*m and 7.11
silicon,For
0
==rε For n=1,
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=radiusBohr
radiuselectron orbiting
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• r1/a0=45 or r1=23.9A0
• This radius ~ 4 lattice constants of Si.
• Each unit cell contains 8 silicon atoms.
• Donor electron thus loosely bound to the donor atom.
• We will next find the approximate ionization energy.
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Total energy
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Kinetic energy Potential energy
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• Ionisation energy of Hydrogen in lowest energy state = -13.6eV
• For Si, it is -25.8meV << band gap.
• Calculations using Bohr model give only the order of magnitude of the
ionisation energy. Actual values differ.
Impurity Ionization energy (eV)
Si Ge
Donors
Phosphorus 0.045 0.012
Arsenic 0.05 0.0127
Acceptors
Boron 0.045 0.0104
Aluminum 0.06 0.0102
Impurity ionization energies in Silicon and Germanium
Impurity Ionization energy (eV)
Donors
Selenium 0.0059
Tellurium 0.0058
Silicon 0.0058
Germanium 0.0061
Acceptors
Beryllium 0.028
Zinc 0.0307
Cadmium 0.0347
Silicon 0.0345
Germanium 0.0404
Impurity ionization energies in gallium arsenide
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EXTRINSIC Semiconductor
n-TYPE p-TYPE
Majority carrier electrons
Minority carrier holes
Majority carrier holes
Minority carrier electrons
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The equation is valid for both intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
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Another form (relation between EF and EFi)Intrinsic carrier concentration
n0p0=ni2
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Where is the Fermi level?
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Condition for the Boltzmann approximation
EC-EF > 3KT
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Use The Fermi-Dirac Integral
No Boltzmann approximation
If the impurity concentration is very high....
Fermi level will be very close to conduction band or valence band.
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Boltzman approximation
Only if EC-EF > 3KT
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Fermi-Dirac Integral
If ηF>1, then EF>EC
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Degenerate Semiconductors
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If the impurity atoms are very close each other...
• Donor electrons interact with each other• The single discrete donor energy will split into a band• The band may overlap the conduction band• If the concentration exceed Nc, EF lies within the
conduction band
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Nd > Nc Na > Nv
Degenerated Semiconductor
Fermi level in the conduction band: Metallic conduction
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Statistics of donors and acceptors
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How many electrons still in the donor levels compared to the total number of electrons?
depends on the temperature and the Fermi level....
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Probability function for donor & acceptor levels
This same as the Fermi-Dirac probability function except the pre-exponential coefficient of ½.
Density of donor atoms
Density of electrons occupying donor states
Concentration of ionized donors
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similar for holes:
g=degeneration factor; 4 for GaAs and Si acceptor levels
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Low temperature Moderate temperature High temperature
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Ed-EF>>kT
Moderate temperature
If Ed-EF >> kT, then even Ec-EF >> KT
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Then,
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With Phosphorus doping of Nd=1016cm-3, at T=300K, nd/(nd+n0)=0.41%
Almost complete ionization at Room Temp!
Fraction of electrons still in the donor states
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Extremely low temperature (T=0K)
nd=Nd
EF > Ed
Freeze-out
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High temperature
• At very high temperature behavior is just like the intrinsic semiconductor
(because of thermally generated electrons)
(because of thermally generated holes)
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Complete ionization
Freeze-out
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Compensated semiconductor
• Both donor and acceptor impurities in the same region
• If Nd > Na n-type compensated semiconductor
• If Nd < Na p-type compensated semiconductor
• If Nd = Na completely compensated (will behave like
intrinsic material)
• Practical semiconductor is always compensated semiconductor.
Eg. Substrate is predoped usually p-type. All other dopings are done on top
of this.
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Charge neutrality :
Ionized acceptors
Ionized donors
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Using the relation
n0 is not simply Nd
Recall
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Minority carrier concentration
p 0 =n i
2
n 0
Similarly in p-type semiconductor,
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0 22 idada nNNNNp +
−+−=
(n-type material)
o
i
pnn
2
0 =
(p-type material)
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Where is the Fermi level of an extrinsic semiconductor?
N-type: Nd>>ni then n0≈Nd
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Where is the Fermi level of a p-type extrinsic semiconductor?
P-type: Na>>ni then p0≈Na
=−
a
vvF N
NkTEE ln
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Position of Fermi level for an (a) n-type and (b) p-type semicondcutor.
(a) (b)
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Different expression for the n-type...
Another expression for the p-type
E F i − E F = k T l np 0
n i
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Variation of EF with doping concentration:
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Variation of EF with temperature T
E F i − E F = k T l np 0
n i
=−
iFiF n
nkTEE 0ln
Variation of Fermi level with temperature for different doping concentrations
• At higher temperatures, the semiconductor becomes more
intrinsic. ni increases and Fermi level moves towards mid-gap
•At T=0, Fermi level is above Ed in n-type and below Ea in p-type semiconductor
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EF must be equal when different systems are in contact and in thermodynamic equilibrium
Consider a material A, with Fermi level EFA. Bands below EFA are full and above are empty.
material B with Fermi level EFB.
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EF must be equal when different systems are in contact and in thermodynamic equilibrium
• When A and B are brought in contact, electrons will flow from A into lower energy states of B, until thermal equilibrium is reached.
• Thermal equilibrium EF same in A & B
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Summary• Electron concentration
• Hole concentration
• Intrinsic carrier concentration :
• In intrinsic semiconductor, Fermi level is close to but not exactly in the centre between conduction and valence bands.
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0( )exp c F
cE En NkT− = −
0( )exp F v
vE Ep NkT
− =
20 0
( )exp exp gc vi c v c v
EE En n p N N N NkT kT
− = = − = −
Holds for both intrinsic as well as extrinsic semiconductor
*
*
3 ln4
pFi midgap
n
mE E kT
m
− =
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Summary• In extrinsic semiconductor, Fermi level is close to conduction
band (n-type) or valence band (p-type)
• Position of Fermi level in extrinsic semiconductor
• In compensated n-type semiconductor electron concentration is given by
• When two different systems are in contact and in thermal equilibrium, EF must be the same in both systems.
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0lnF Fii
nE E kTn
− =
22
0 2 2d a d a
iN N N Nn n− − = + +