A semiconductor has been doped with both donors and acceptors, making it
compensated. Compensation occurs when NDand
NAare approximately equal, but the magnitude
of the difference between them is less than ni.
In this situation the dopants tend to cancel each other out and the semiconductor
almost behaves intrinsically. The band diagrams below are snapshots
of the doped semiconductor at different temperatures. Do you know
what we mean by snapshots?
Which of the band diagrams below is at:
(Choose a temperature for each situation.)