Why Silicon is preferred over Germanium for Semiconductor Devices?
As we all know, both Silicon and Germanium are semiconductor devices. But the present trend is to use Silicon instead of Germanium. What may be the reasons?
At room temperature, Silicon crystal has fewer free electrons than Germanium crystal. This implies that silicon will have much smaller Collector cut off current than Germanium.
The variation of Collector cut off current with
Why Silicon is preferred over Germanium for Semiconductor Devices?
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October 20, 2013
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