Kittel 8.1: Calculate Donor Ionization Energy

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This question refers to Kittel's Solid-state physics book.

I think it is obvious that we should use equations (51) and (52) here but I am very confused about this problem because Kittel never says what the impurity is and what the impurity is in.
Can someone fill in the blanks:
(a) Calculate the donor ionization energy of _____ in _______ .


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Which problem? What are you talking about?
 
Dick said:
Which problem? What are you talking about?

This question refers to problem 8.1 in Kittel's Solid-state physics book.
 
To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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