What is the doping and hole concentration?

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Homework Statement



(a) Show law of mass action.
(b) Find dopant concentration and hole concentration.[/B]
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The Attempt at a Solution



Part(a)[/B]
Bookwork.

Part(b)

Letting the doping concentration be ##D##, we have:
[tex]D = n - p[/tex]
For ##I = n_{intrinsic} = p_{intrinsic}##, we have:
[tex]D^2 + 4I^2 = (n+p)^2 = (n-p)^2 + 4np[/tex]

Which gives us the result
[tex]n = \frac{1}{2}\left( \sqrt{D^2 + 4I^2} + D \right)[/tex]
[tex]p = \frac{1}{2}\left( \sqrt{D^2 + 4I^2} - D \right)[/tex]

For the doping to work at 750K, I estimate the doping concentration to be ##D \approx n_{intrinsic} = \sqrt{np}##.
At 750 K,
[tex]D = \sqrt{np} = 1.7 \times 10^{23}[/tex]
At 300K,
[tex]I = \sqrt{np} = 1 \times 10^{19}[/tex]

Since ##D >> I##, we have
[tex]p \approx \frac{I^2}{D} = 6 \times 10^{14}[/tex]

Is this right?
 
bumping on dope
 
bumping dope concentration?
 
bump on dopant concentration