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History of development
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Main types
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Fabrication
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Materials
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Overview
- Electronic component
- Electronic Electronics
- Semiconductor
- Silicon
- Germanium
- Gallium arsenide
- Organic semiconductors Organic semiconductor
- Vacuum tubes Vacuum tube
- Conductivity Electrical conductivity
- Electric current
- Solid-state Solid-state electronics
- Vacuum
- Thermionic emission
- An ionized gas Electric discharge in gases
- Discrete devices Discrete device
- Integrated circuits Integrated circuit
- Wafer Wafer (electronics)
- Doping Doping (semiconductor)
- Light
- Monocrystalline silicon
- Electrons
- Electron holes Electron hole
- Charge carriers Charge carrier
- Phosphorus
- Boron
- P-type semiconductor
- Electric charge
- N-type semiconductor
- P–n junctions P–n junction
- Metal-oxide-semiconductor FET MOSFET
Main types
- Depletion region
- Electric potential
- Electron–hole pairs Electron–hole pair
- Photodiodes Photodiode
- Compound semiconductor
- Light-emitting diode
- Laser diode
- DIAC
- Diode
- Gunn diode
- IMPATT diode
- Photocell
- Phototransistor
- PIN diode
- Schottky diode
- Solar cell
- Transient-voltage-suppression diode
- Tunnel diode
- VCSEL
- Zener diode
- Zen diode Zen diode?action=edit&redlink=1
- Bipolar transistor
- Darlington transistor
- Insulated-gate bipolar transistor
- Silicon-controlled rectifier
- Thyristor
- TRIAC
- Unijunction transistor
- Hall effect sensor
- Photocoupler
Materials
- Boules Boule (crystal)
- IBM
- Gallium Nitride
- Power ICs Power management integrated circuit
- RF Radio frequency
- Band gap
- EV Electronvolt
- Silicon carbide
- Power ICs Power IC
- Operating temperatures Operating temperature
- Ionizing radiation
- Indium
- Indium arsenide
- Indium antimonide
- Indium phosphide
- Selenium sulfide
- Photovoltaic
- Organic light-emitting diodes Organic light-emitting diode
Applications
- Logic gates Logic gate
- Digital circuits Digital circuit
- Microprocessors Microprocessor
- Voltage
- Switch
- Analog circuits Analog circuit
- Amplifiers Amplifier
- Oscillators Oscillator
- Mixed-signal circuits Mixed-signal integrated circuit
- Power semiconductor devices Power semiconductor device
- Part numbers Part number
- JEDEC
- Pro Electron
- Japanese Industrial Standards
Fabrication
- Semiconductor device fabrication
- Semiconductor devices
- Microcontrollers Microcontroller
- RAM Random-access memory
- Flash memory
- Photolithographic Photolithography
- Thermal oxidation
- Ion implantation
- Electronic circuits
- Semiconducting
- OLED
- Semiconductor fabrication plants Semiconductor fabrication plant
- Clean room
- 14 14 nm process
- 10 10 nm process
- 7 nm 7 nm process
- Dies Die (integrated circuit)
- Die singulation
- FOUPs FOUP
- ASML ASML Holding
- Applied Materials
- Tokyo Electron
- Lam Research
History of development
- Radios Radio
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Galena
- Copper oxide Copper(I) oxide
- Selenium
- Westinghouse Electric (1886)
- Radar
- Frequencies Frequency
- Cavity magnetron
- Tizard Mission
- Russell Ohl
- Bell Laboratories
- Cat's whisker Cat's-whisker detector
- Manhattan Manhattan, New York
- Walter Brattain
- Purdue University
- Bell Labs
- MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Chicago
- William Shockley
- Triode
- John Bardeen
- Electron mobility
- Quantum mechanics
- Surface physics
- P–n–p point-contact germanium transistor Point-contact transistor
- Walter Houser Brattain
- William Bradford Shockley
- Nobel Prize
- Sic
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Semiconductor device
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related to Fabrication · 11
Semiconductor device → ICs, In, It, LCD, OLED, Production, RAM, Semiconductor, Silicon, Steps, The
related to Component identifiers · 9
Semiconductor device → Europe, For, Japanese Industrial Standards, JEDEC JESD370B, JIS, Nevertheless, Pro Electron, The, United States
related to Development of the transistor · 9
Semiconductor device → After, Brattain, For, He, However, It, John Bardeen, The, William Shockley
related to Materials · 9
Semiconductor device → By, Ge, Germanium, IBM, Its, Si, SiGe, Silicon, Today
see also · 7
Semiconductor device → Deep-level, DLTS, EDA, Electronics, Integrated, Schön, VLSI
is a · 2
Semiconductor device → electronic component that relies on the electronic properties of a semiconductor material, metal rectifier in which the semiconductor is copper oxide or selenium
related to Metal rectifier · 2
Semiconductor device → Another, Westinghouse Electric
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Important terminology
semiconductor electrons silicon transistor device devices used crystal also would current called holes semiconductors mosfet material electric circuits transistors known
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor device | is a | electronic component that relies on the electronic properties of a semiconductor material | 0.90 | text |
| Semiconductor device | is a | metal rectifier in which the semiconductor is copper oxide or selenium | 0.90 | text |
| thermal oxidation | instance of | with steps | 0.80 | text |
| thin-film deposition | instance of | with steps | 0.80 | text |
| ion implantation | instance of | with steps | 0.80 | text |
| and etching | instance of | with steps | 0.80 | text |
| during which electronic circuits are gradually created on a wafer | instance of | with steps | 0.80 | text |
| typically made of pure single-crystal semiconducting material | instance of | with steps | 0.80 | text |
| etching | instance of | Steps | 0.80 | text |
| photolithography can be used to manufacture other devices | instance of | Steps | 0.80 | text |
| such as LCD | instance of | Steps | 0.80 | text |
| OLED displays.The fabrication process is performed in highly specialized semiconductor fabrication plants | instance of | Steps | 0.80 | text |
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Nodes186
Edges185
Triples61
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010753
Components1
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