A research team led by Associate Professor Yasushi Segawa, graduate students Mai Nagase (at the time of the research) and Rui Yoshida, and technical staff member Sachiko Nakano of the Institute for ...

A Monte Carlo (MC) code has been developed to simulate the interaction of gamma-rays with semiconductors and scintillators, and the subsequent energy partitioning of fast electrons. The results ...

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Enhanced Current Flow: In pure (intrinsic) semiconductors, relatively few free electrons are available for carrying current. Holes provide an additional mechanism for charge movement.

AlN as a semiconductor material. All semiconductors are based on chemical doping of impurity elements to operate. When a doping material is inserted, n-type or p-type semiconductors can be created ...

Quantum transitions in intrinsic semiconductors take place between the single-electron quantum states that make up the valence band and the conduction band. We can determine the total number of ...

In semiconductor physics, graphs often represent the processes of generation, which involves the creation of electron-hole pairs, and recombination, which involves the annihilation of these pairs. The ...

As the temperature increases, numerous electron-hole pairs are generated, due to excitation of electrons from the valence band maximum to the conduction band minimum. These electrons, which increase ...