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Semiconductor Interview Questions & Answers: Copper Indium Gallium Selenium

This document contains 25 questions and answers about semiconductors. It covers topics such as what diodes do, doping semiconductors, common semiconductor materials like gallium arsenide and CIGS, components of transistors like MOSFETs and BJTs, and definitions of terms like exciton, Fermi level, and doping. The questions and answers provide an overview of fundamental semiconductor concepts and components.

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Semiconductor Interview Questions & Answers: Copper Indium Gallium Selenium

This document contains 25 questions and answers about semiconductors. It covers topics such as what diodes do, doping semiconductors, common semiconductor materials like gallium arsenide and CIGS, components of transistors like MOSFETs and BJTs, and definitions of terms like exciton, Fermi level, and doping. The questions and answers provide an overview of fundamental semiconductor concepts and components.

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SEMICONDUCTOR INTERVIEW QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Question 1. What Do Diodes Do?

Answer : Block current in one direction while letting current ow in another direction.

Question 2. Where Must Doping Be Added Within A Semiconductor To Alter Their Conductivity?

Answer : Their crystal lattice.

Question 3. What Is The Value Of Kt At Room Temperature?

Answer : 25.6 meV

Question 4. Which Semiconductor Has A Direct Bandgap?

Answer : Gallium arsenide has a direct bandgap.

Question 5. What Are The Four Elements In Cigs?

Answer : Copper
indium
gallium
selenium

Question 6. How To Use Resistors?

Answer : Resistors are typically used to control volume in electronics.

Question 7. What Is An Exciton?

Answer : An electron-hole pair is called an exciton.

Question 8. What Type Of Semiconductor Do You Get If You Dope It With Boron?

Answer : A p-type semiconductor.

Question 9. What Is A Iii-v Semiconductor?

Answer : A semiconductor made from elements in columns III and V of the periodic table.

Question 10. What Mathematical Formula Most Accurately Predicts The Fermi Level Of A Semiconductor?

Answer : Fermi-Dirac distribution.

Question 11. What Are The Four Terminals Of An Fet Transistor?

Answer : Source
gate
drain
body

Question 12. Can Pure Silicon Alone Be Used To Make A Semiconductor?

Answer : No. It needs impurities to become semi-conductive.

Question 13. What Does The Acronym Igbt Stand For?

Answer : Insulated gate bipolar transistor.

Question 14. What Are The Components Of A Mosfet?

Answer : Source
drain
gate

Question 15. What Does Cmos Stand For?

Answer : Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor.


Question 16. What Are The Two Bands In Which An Electron Can Reside?

Answer : Valence and conduction

Question 17. What Is The Reason For Reducing Drain Doping In A Metal-oxide Semiconductor Device Design?

Answer : To improve breakdown voltage.

Question 18. What Is A Semiconductor?

Answer : The combination of a conductive material, and an insulator.

Question 19. What Does 'doping' Do?

Answer : Changes a semiconductor's behavior.

Question 20. When Silicon Has Been Doped, What Does This Mean?

Answer : Impurities have been added that alter its electronic properties in a controllable way.

Question 21. What Is Doping?

Answer : The process of deliberately adding impurities to affect conductivity is called Doping.

Question 22. Why Are Semiconductors Important?

Answer : They successfully replaced vacuum tubes as the primary way to compute data.

Question 23. What Does Led Stand For?

Answer : Light Emitting Diode

Question 24. What Does Mosfet Stand For?

Answer : Metal–oxide–semiconductor eld-effect transistor.

Question 25. What Does Bjt Stand For?

Answer : Bipolar junction transistor.


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