Semiconductors have conductivity between conductors and insulators. Silicon and Germanium are common elemental semiconductors. Aluminium, Mercury, and Silver are conductors.
Which of the following elements is a semiconductor?
Asked in WBCS Main Paper 4 2021 · Topic: Conductivity (Band Theory of Solids: Conductors, Semiconductors, and Insulators)
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