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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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