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PhET Simulation: Semiconductors
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This webpage contains an interactive simulation that is a schematic illustration of conduction in semiconductors. Users can create doped semiconductors and PN junctions and explore their behavior as a function of applied voltage. The simulation gives a representation of how the electron population created by doping results in physical properties of semiconductor devices.
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/semiconductor
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism
- Semiconductors and Tubes
= Diodes
= Semiconductors
General Physics
- Properties of Matter
Modern Physics
- Condensed Matter
- Lower Undergraduate
- Upper Undergraduate
- High School
- Instructional Material
= Curriculum support
= Interactive Simulation
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
Intended Users Formats Ratings
- Learners
- Educators
- application/java
- text/html
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Access Rights: Free access
Restriction: © 2005 PHET and University of Colorado
Additional information is available.
Keywords: PN junction, band gap, diode, doping, n-type, p-type, semiconductor
Record Cloner: Metadata instance created October 2, 2006 by Gifford Weber
Record Updated: Feb 22, 2025 by Lyle Barbato
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when Cataloged:		 August 11, 2006
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AIP Format
(PhET, Boulder, 2005), WWW Document, (https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/semiconductor).
AJP/PRST-PER
PhET Simulation: Semiconductors (PhET, Boulder, 2005), <https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/semiconductor>.
APA Format
PhET Simulation: Semiconductors. (2006, August 11). Retrieved April 18, 2025, from PhET: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/semiconductor
Chicago Format
PhET. PhET Simulation: Semiconductors. Boulder: PhET, August 11, 2006. https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/semiconductor (accessed 18 April 2025).
MLA Format
PhET Simulation: Semiconductors. Boulder: PhET, 2005. 11 Aug. 2006. 18 Apr. 2025 <https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/semiconductor>.
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@misc{ Title = {PhET Simulation: Semiconductors}, Publisher = {PhET}, Volume = {2025}, Number = {18 April 2025}, Month = {August 11, 2006}, Year = {2005} }
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