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Semiconductors: The Physics of Chips
Why silicon conducts a little: band gaps, electrons and holes, doping into n- and p-type, the p-n junction diode, the MOSFET switch at the heart of every chip, and why shrinking transistors got hard.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Electricity & magnetism; Atoms & nuclei. Next: TSMC; Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain. Sources: Ben Eater 'How semiconductors work'; OpenStax *University Physics* Vol. 3 ch. 9; Chris Miller, *Chip War*.Next: 1. Bands