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Grade 12Engineering Entrance Exams

Although Si is an insulator then how does it behave as semiconductor upon heating?

Profile image of Anshu mahato
8 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Devansh Jain
8 Years ago
Si is not an insulator. It has a unique property in their electron structure- each has 4 electrons in their outer orbital forming perfect covalent bonds with 4 atoms and creating a lattice.
Profile image of shekharnandanwar
8 Years ago
si has 14 electron in the fround state,of these four are valence electron hence it can complete its octet and obtain the stable noble gas configuration of argon.
Profile image of Piyush Maheshwari
8 Years ago
Silicon is an intrinsic semiconductor. The energy gap between valence and conduction band is low compared to insulators. on heating the valnce band electrons are excited to conduction band, thus facilitating conduction.

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