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Term: degenerate semiconductor
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Definition: semiconductor in which the Fermi level is situated in the conduction band, or in the valence band or is closer than twice the product of Boltzmann's constant and the thermodynamic temperature to either band

NOTE – The charge carriers of a degenerate semiconductor are governed by Fermi-Dirac statistics.


Publication date:2002-05
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