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Question
Answer the following question.
On which factors does the electrical conductivity of a pure semiconductor depend at a given temperature?
Solution
For pure semiconductors, the number density of free electrons and the number density of holes is equal. Thus, at a given temperature, the conductivity of a pure semiconductor depends on the number density of charge carriers in the semiconductor.
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