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Natural Sciences · Advanced
Semiconductors
Silicon is neither a good conductor nor a good insulator, and that's exactly what makes modern technology possible. Learn how band gaps, doping and junctions produce diodes, LEDs, solar cells and the transistors inside every chip, then squeeze the most power from a solar cell and test fifty years of Moore's law.
7 lessons~35 min0/7 complete
Start courseHelpful background: Electricity & Circuits
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In-Between Materials
Bands and doping.
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Devices
Junctions that do useful things.
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Power and Progress
Solar cells and the march of the transistor.