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    Week 1 - Diodes: 1 Poisson's Equation

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    This document summarizes key concepts about diodes from Week 1 of a course: 1. It derives Poisson's equation for a PIN diode, separating it into regions for the P, I, and N sections. 2. Integrating Poisson's equation provides a general solution for the electric field Ex in each region. 3. Applying boundary conditions and solving for constants results in a complete expression for Ex across the entire PIN diode. 4. The expression is compared to that of a basic PN junction, noting the PIN diode has a constant electric field over the intrinsic region rather than a single maximum point.

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    This document summarizes key concepts about diodes from Week 1 of a course: 1. It derives Poisson's equation for a PIN diode, separating it into regions for the P, I, and N sections. 2. Integrating Poisson's equation provides a general solution for the electric field Ex in each region. 3. Applying boundary conditions and solving for constants results in a complete expression for Ex across the entire PIN diode. 4. The expression is compared to that of a basic PN junction, noting the PIN diode has a constant electric field over the intrinsic region rather than a single maximum point.

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    This document summarizes key concepts about diodes from Week 1 of a course: 1. It derives Poisson's equation for a PIN diode, separating it into regions for the P, I, and N sections. 2. Integrating Poisson's equation provides a general solution for the electric field Ex in each region. 3. Applying boundary conditions and solving for constants results in a complete expression for Ex across the entire PIN diode. 4. The expression is compared to that of a basic PN junction, noting the PIN diode has a constant electric field over the intrinsic region rather than a single maximum point.

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    Week 1 - Diodes: 1 Poisson's Equation

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    This document summarizes key concepts about diodes from Week 1 of a course: 1. It derives Poisson's equation for a PIN diode, separating it into regions for the P, I, and N sections. 2. Integrating Poisson's equation provides a general solution for the electric field Ex in each region. 3. Applying boundary conditions and solving for constants results in a complete expression for Ex across the entire PIN diode. 4. The expression is compared to that of a basic PN junction, noting the PIN diode has a constant electric field over the intrinsic region rather than a single maximum point.

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    Week 1 - Diodes

    allan.gonzalez98
    April 2020

    1 Poisson’s Equation
    We start writing down the equation as it appeared in the course:

    ∂2φ dEx Nd − Na
    2
    =− =q·
    ∂x dx s

    For the pin case here, we can separate by regions:


    s dEx −Na
     −xp ≤ x ≤ −xpi
    · = 0 −xpi ≤ x ≤ xni
    q dx 
    Nd xni ≤ x ≤ xn

    2 General Solution
    Integrating we get the following:


    s −Na · x + C0
     −xp ≤ x ≤ −xpi
    · Ex = C1 −xpi ≤ x ≤ xni
    q 
    Nd · x + C2 xni ≤ x ≤ xn

    3 Complete Expression
    We’ve got boundary conditions Ex (xp ) = Ex (xn ) = 0 and we got that Ex (xpi )
    and Ex (xni ) must be continuous.

    1
    So substituting for each boundary condition and solving for the arbitrary
    constants and then taking out the common factors, you’ll get:


    s −Na · (x + xp )
     −xp ≤ x ≤ −xpi
    · Ex = −Na · (xp − xpi ) = −Nd · (xn − xni ) −xpi ≤ x ≤ xni
    q 
    −Nd · (xn − x) xni ≤ x ≤ xn

    4 Comparing with PN junction


    For a common PN junction:

    (
    s −Na · (x + xp ) −xp ≤ x ≤ 0
    · Ex =
    q −Nd · (xn − x) xni ≤ x ≤ xn

    This means that there’s a maximum electric field that can be found at x = 0.

    Meanwhile for the PIN junction:


    s −Na · (x + xp )
     −xp ≤ x ≤ −xpi
    · Ex = −Na · (xp − xpi ) = −Nd · (xn − xni ) −xpi ≤ x ≤ xni
    q 
    −Nd · (xn − x) xni ≤ x ≤ xn

    What you’ll see is that the the maximum electric field does not have the
    same maximums as the PN junction, since the PIN junction remains constant
    for the interval that contains 0.

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