{"id":14241,"date":"2014-10-10T21:24:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T02:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14241"},"modified":"2014-10-10T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T02:25:16","slug":"an-introduction-to-semiconductor-physics-technology-and-industry-print-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14241","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Semiconductor Physics, Technology, and Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The simplest place to start is the materials. Silicon is incredibly important as a material in the industry because it\u2019s a semiconductor. Of course, the name is self-explanatory, but there\u2019s more to it. The key here is the band structure. Band structure refers to the \u201cbands\u201d of energy levels that form due to the sheer number of orbital states that can be occupied in molecules. Those that understand how electron orbitals work will point out that each energy level is discrete, but due to the sheer number of orbital configurations, a seemingly continuous distribution of energy can be seen. However, relatively large gaps still exist; known as a band gap, these are an energy state that an electron cannot occupy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/print\/8223\/an-introduction-to-semiconductor-physics-technology-and-industry\">AnandTech | An Introduction to Semiconductor Physics, Technology, and Industry &#8211; Print View<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And on and on it goes.\u00a0 This is a great writeup for understanding how integrated circuits work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The simplest place to start is the materials. Silicon is incredibly important as a material in the industry because it\u2019s a semiconductor. Of course, the name is self-explanatory, but there\u2019s more to it. The key here is the band structure. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[702,862,107,647],"class_list":["post-14241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-educational","tag-physics","tag-reference","tag-semiconductors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14243,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14241\/revisions\/14243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}