Please consider the following hypothetical: It is 2027. The…
Please consider the following hypothetical: It is 2027. The long-feared invasion of Taiwan has happened, just as Admiral Davidson foretold. The US President orders the US military to defend Taiwan because a free and open Indo-Pacific is in the American national interest, because Taiwan is a major source of semiconductors, and because the United States must uphold its reputation for protecting its partners. The US President makes this decision despite the fact that the United States abrogated (aka: tore up) its formal defense treaty with Taiwan in 1979. True or false: According to Connor Monie’s guest lecture, we should call the United States and Taiwan allies even in the absence of a formal treaty, because what really matters is that the United States actually went to war on Taiwan’s behalf.
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Problem I (30 points): Consider an n-type semiconductor at temperature T. In thermal equilibrium, the electron and hole concentrations are n₀ and p₀, respectively. Assume the nondegenerate limit so that Boltzmann statistics apply.When the semiconductor is uniformly illuminated, it reaches a steady nonequilibrium state with electron and hole quasi-Fermi levels EFn and EFp, and carrier concentrations n and p. Assume that Eg, Nc, and Nv are known.1. Derive an expression for the product np in terms of the quasi-Fermi levels.2. Draw a schematic band diagram showing the positions of the two quasi-Fermi levels under light illumination. 3, When the light is turned off and the semiconductor returns to equilibrium, derive the product of the electron and hole concentrations in terms of Eg, Nc, and Nv.
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