Intrinsic semiconductors | Class 12 (India) | Physics | Khan Academy

In this video, we will explore the electrical properties of a pure silicon crystal.
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Class 12 Semiconductors: We cannot imagine our life without computers today. But what makes a computer tick? What's making this technology grow at such an exponential rate? It's all due to semiconductors. As unbelievable as that might sound, altering the properties of semiconductors allows us to build these computers. In this topic, we will explore the world of semiconductors. It's a journey from what semiconductors are all the way to creating building blocks of these computers.
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  • @ilovestrawberries
    @ilovestrawberries5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the great explanations and clear visuals. I love the representation of holes as an air bubble in a water bottle :)

  • @madhum8270
    @madhum82703 жыл бұрын

    I've scored full mark in semiconductors test. Thanks to you for making this chap clear. You are the best teacher. Great job🔥😃☺️

  • @ChNagaLaxmi-lp2sj

    @ChNagaLaxmi-lp2sj

    9 ай бұрын

    😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @Jimmeeeee
    @Jimmeeeee2 жыл бұрын

    i wish this type of explanation would been at my college.college teachers should really learn from this guy

  • @anjibabuonteru5990

    @anjibabuonteru5990

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes dude

  • @ganeashvasanth463
    @ganeashvasanth4632 жыл бұрын

    that water bottle and air bubble anology was the best part of the video, you cracked down such a complex thing with that simple ilustration

  • @kavitagurnani3335
    @kavitagurnani3335 Жыл бұрын

    Sir your core concept teaching always blows my mind thank you, for such amazing science

  • @john91051
    @john910515 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the quality content and the meaningful explanations.

  • @tamilarasi.n1313
    @tamilarasi.n13133 жыл бұрын

    Clear cut concepts in common language & absolutely for free.... Help alot for students, thank u so much ...khan academy hat's off to u👏👏👏

  • @MayankGoel447
    @MayankGoel4473 жыл бұрын

    These 11 minutes literally flew by!

  • @_rafiaahmad
    @_rafiaahmad2 жыл бұрын

    Couldn't be explained better. Thanks a lot. 🙂

  • @sabarishks6089
    @sabarishks6089 Жыл бұрын

    11.12 best analogy.Awesome!!!!!👍👍👍👍.Thank you so much sir.

  • @shyamindoria6386
    @shyamindoria63865 жыл бұрын

    Explaination is too good .. ...... Even best😊😊

  • @hufflepuff4444
    @hufflepuff4444 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much, Sir. The air bubble analogy cleared things up well.

  • @catharperfect7036
    @catharperfect703610 ай бұрын

    When you put the knowledge of semiconductors/transistors all together, it is quite beautiful.

  • @Conlan0215
    @Conlan0215 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent series; thank you for making these free and public! As an aside, your handwriting during the intro looks like a Disney font.

  • @jenniferv25
    @jenniferv253 жыл бұрын

    Such a wonderful explanation😊😊 the concepts are crystal clear. Amazing video sir👏👏👏

  • @SagarKumar-li4um
    @SagarKumar-li4um Жыл бұрын

    most of the youtubers tends to focus on quantity but loved the way how you focus on quality education. Thank u 🖤

  • @piyushkumarsingh0694
    @piyushkumarsingh06946 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are amazing and easy to understand.

  • @fahimm3905
    @fahimm3905 Жыл бұрын

    Legendary teaching skill! Thanks a lot sir. ❤️❤️

  • @skyward7903
    @skyward79033 жыл бұрын

    Wow this is such a great explanation!!! thank you!!!

  • @bebarshossny5148
    @bebarshossny51483 жыл бұрын

    this video ended with a the analogy of the decade

  • @mrwolfie6406
    @mrwolfie64064 жыл бұрын

    Wow Art of physics!!!!😘😘😘

  • @vidhyapriya4722
    @vidhyapriya47224 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for all your videos

  • @loveindia302
    @loveindia3024 жыл бұрын

    God of teaching

  • @nadirahzakhir8468
    @nadirahzakhir84685 ай бұрын

    this is such a good explanation wth my mind is blown

  • @faizaanwar8403
    @faizaanwar84032 жыл бұрын

    hats off to you sir!!

  • @gauripandey605
    @gauripandey6052 жыл бұрын

    This was so helpful thank you!!

  • @krema8301
    @krema83012 жыл бұрын

    "The whole idea behind this hole" that was very nice ;)

  • @brikham9227
    @brikham92275 жыл бұрын

    Next level teaching soo far 😘😘😘😘

  • @srishtimishra4255
    @srishtimishra42554 жыл бұрын

    Wow it's a beautiful explanation

  • @ashwinkumarv8092
    @ashwinkumarv80925 жыл бұрын

    Thanks jeez! Too good!!

  • @rakesharora7714
    @rakesharora77145 ай бұрын

    Thanks a lot.

  • @kaushalfrancisj
    @kaushalfrancisj4 жыл бұрын

    Perfect 👍😊

  • @eduardemanuelroman1815
    @eduardemanuelroman18155 жыл бұрын

    I have a tough question. If a battery is applied, wouldn't the valence electrons (at the very end of the semiconductive material) find easy to get into the conduction band of the metal wires and finally nearby electrons would jump into those left behind holes, creating like an avalanche? That is, the valence shells of the very end of the semiconductive material would be actually "glued" to the positive metal wire(and to their valence shells). Metal wires have their conduction and valence band overlapped. So electrons would say: "Ooh, look, we don't need a hole to fill in, we can directly jump into the metal wire." The electrons from nearby atoms would say: "Hey! Holes got created! Let's jump in!", and so on. This would create an avalanche, right? I think that more easy to say is this: how is it possible that valence electrons, when a voltage is applied, they jump from hole to hole towards the positive terminal of the battery, so that they finally jump into the metal wire? When they reach the final atom of the semiconductor, they just jump into that metal wire? If this is what happens, then why the avalanche (which I tried :)) to explain above) does not happen? Thank you!

  • @walletinsiders

    @walletinsiders

    5 жыл бұрын

    Really not an expert here but I think you're thinking of holes as a missing space in a sea and so if there are enough holes that this "sea" must cave in thus creating an avalanche. It's not like that though when you think about it as simply a band which is occupied by electrons. 2 per energy level but it doesn't mean to say it can't have one or no electrons on one energy level. And so nothing will "cave in" no matter how there holes or electrons move or how many vacancies there are. I think that more holes or electrons just mean more conduction. (Ps. I can't really determine what ur question is but this is the answer for my interpretation of what you are asking).

  • @mahimathresiasujoy563

    @mahimathresiasujoy563

    2 жыл бұрын

    Avalanche does happens in such cases but..here is the thing it happens in a lightly doped junction…which I think u should watch diode 😅…then the ans to your question will be solved🧞‍♀️

  • @Fit_Sculpture2
    @Fit_Sculpture24 жыл бұрын

    Is there any change in holes number in valency band if we add phosporous atom

  • @claricea5353
    @claricea53534 жыл бұрын

    thank you!!

  • @astrophysicistrena6535
    @astrophysicistrena65352 жыл бұрын

    tnx sir ,i have big respect for u . but i have 1 question over here how can holes can move

  • @user-qx3sv9oz9n
    @user-qx3sv9oz9n Жыл бұрын

    ❤ india, india 고마워요

  • @tineshsakthir9874
    @tineshsakthir98742 жыл бұрын

    Water bottle explaination is a great idea........

  • @R4G3L3GiTSn1PZ
    @R4G3L3GiTSn1PZ8 ай бұрын

    You write in Disney font

  • @thebasedbitch

    @thebasedbitch

    2 ай бұрын

    Fr fr

  • @nitink9879
    @nitink98794 жыл бұрын

    Please clear my doubt. One cannot say the current is due to BOTH electrons and holes. As a convention we can consider only holes instead of electrons. But if done so we can consider only the movement of holes accounting for current. That is we can say the current is completely and only due to electrons or we can say the current is completely and only due to holes. But we cannot say the current is due to both holes and electrons.

  • @KhanAcademyIndiaEnglish

    @KhanAcademyIndiaEnglish

    4 жыл бұрын

    I had a similar confusion. So let me clarify. When we say hole current, it's literally the electrons in the valence band (the ones that are participating in covalent bonds and are not 'free'), jumping from one hole to another, in the opposite direction of electric field. However, there are free electrons in conduction band as well. These electrons also move in the opposite direction of the field. This is what we call 'electron current'. So you see, there is indeed two set of electrons constituting the total current. It's just that, for the electrons jumping from one hole to another, it's easier to keep track of holes. So we assume the holes to be moving. So there you have it, you indeed get two sets of current and total current would be the sum of them. Feel free to ask more questions

  • @nitink9879

    @nitink9879

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@KhanAcademyIndiaEnglish Now I understand. The current in valence band is called hole current in which it is easier to keep track of holes rather than electrons. Thank you for clearing my doubt sir.

  • @geojose5045

    @geojose5045

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nitink9879 but how can there be current in the valence band. Current can only be generated in the conduct band right?

  • @nitink9879

    @nitink9879

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@geojose5045 No . The current flows through both valence and conduction band.

  • @VishalE-zh5uz
    @VishalE-zh5uz5 жыл бұрын

    Last example was awesome... but why i came to utube bs ur app was nt working😯😯

  • @CGuevara00
    @CGuevara002 жыл бұрын

    ¡Thank you!

  • @doodoofarter105
    @doodoofarter1056 жыл бұрын

    Why is it that semiconductors do this? The thing that some of the electrons will break out and create holes. Why cant conductors or insulators do this? Follow up: Why is it that when Silicon is at 300 K , only some of the electrons manage to jump to the higher energy state? Can't all of them do that since they are all receiving the energy? (commented on the khan academy video as well ,not sure if replying) Thanks

  • @mahimathresiasujoy563

    @mahimathresiasujoy563

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well this is my answer 😊 Conductors have extra electrons…aka free electrons so no holes if electrons move around While insulators mostly don’t have any free electrons ..I.e they attain octet(mostly through covalent 😅 ig) so no electrons to move around On the other hand semiconductors which fall under the 2 have no sufficient electrons and when under external electric field these electrons start to move around ( which is true for any material)so as they move they leave vacant spaces …which is called holes… Now the 2nd question …for semiconductors as temperature increases conductivity increases…so at 300k which is room temperature electrons in Si and any semiconductors experience jump to higher energy state…as for why few…think this way…when energy is provided only a the lucky ones gets enough energy to excite 😅…therefore only a few mange to excite…in case of conductors their valence bands overlaps conductance band therefore all electrons are lucky🙃 however for semiconductors and insulators electrons have to put in an extra effort to move to higher state which only the lucky ones who get sufficient energy does so…so not all electrons are lucky Hope I answered your question though 3 years later😂😅

  • @Surya-uv3bz
    @Surya-uv3bz Жыл бұрын

    in this the valence band electrons are of 3s or 3p, there is some vacancy in case of 3p

  • @pahalshah4375
    @pahalshah4375 Жыл бұрын

    sir pls clear my doubt I can't understand why you are saying that the valence band is 'completely filled' in semiconductors whereas it's not so in conductor (with reference to your last video), because we know that Si has only 4 electrons in valence shell instead of 8, so even if they form a band, each atom will still be short of 4 electrons, then in what sense do you mean 'completely filled'?

  • @23vijayragav82

    @23vijayragav82

    Жыл бұрын

    Si is 4 electrons bonds with another si 4 electrons around it.. like a mutual understanding..

  • @JohnBacas
    @JohnBacas3 жыл бұрын

    can we contribute to the translation of the subtitles in other languages?

  • @SreenikethanI
    @SreenikethanI2 жыл бұрын

    08:34 "the whole idea behind the hole..."

  • @drphysicskota-letsfixit3701
    @drphysicskota-letsfixit37013 жыл бұрын

    On a Mission to make kotaphysics free and easy to all #neet #jee

  • @tony8210300
    @tony82103004 жыл бұрын

    2:50 You talked about the electron in the edge is not shown. But as a bulk material, it definitely has the edge, what is the actual electron configuration in the edge, leaving a vacancy over there?

  • @tony8210300

    @tony8210300

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree your point, however, is it possible to create a environment that keep a perfect silicon that without any impurity. In this situation, what does the edge looks like?

  • @Revil.
    @Revil.Күн бұрын

    I’m Finna score full marks in the jee

  • @tadessetesfaye7499
    @tadessetesfaye7499 Жыл бұрын

    ok we call agree that want water right?

  • @chiranjibsengupta4630
    @chiranjibsengupta46303 жыл бұрын

    the hole idea about the hole..

  • @SreenikethanI

    @SreenikethanI

    2 жыл бұрын

    hehehe