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CHAPTER 17Semiconductor
Materials
The modern microprocessor is a state-of-the-
art application of semiconductor materials en-
cased in a package of conventional structural
materials. This 500 MHz processor contains
10 million transistors on a single silicon chip.
(Courtesy of Intel.)
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Figure 17-1 Variation in electrical conductivity with tem-perature for semiconductor silicon. Contrast with thebehavior shown for the metals in Figure 1510. (This
plot is based on the data in Table 17.1 using Equations15.14 and 17.2.)
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