Carrier Concentrations:



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Carrier Concentrations:

Employing Fermi-Dirac (FD) statistics and position-dependent band-gap narrowing the carrier concentrations can be expressed within the rigid-parabolic-band model by

  

with the gate-contact potential determined by

 

and

 

In a constant doping case, A.1 - A.2 reduce to

 

If Maxwell-Boltzmann (MB) statistics may be applied to minorities, e.g. holes in -type gate, it follows

 

with the effective intrinsic concentration defined by

 

denotes neutral electron concentration, and the intrinsic concentration in pure silicon. The equilibrium minority carrier concentration increases due to total band-gap narrowing , whereas it decreases when FD, but not MB statistics is employed for majorities, because which represents the deviation of MB statistics from FD statistics is a positive number. For MB statistics and constant doping we simply have

 

An analogous expression holds for electrons in -type gate.



Martin Stiftinger
Sat Oct 15 22:05:10 MET 1994