There exist a huge number of exotic semiconductor materials, almost as many as there are material science projects using them. Still, modern manufacturing is dominated by two basic types of ...

Semiconductors can be classified according to their energy bandgap – the energy gap between the valence and conduction bands. Semiconductors with a bandgap of the order of 1.5 eV and over are ...

In this article, we explain what semiconductors are; how they work, with an eye to N-type vs. P-type semiconductors; what semiconductors are made of and how they're built; and where they are found ...