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Consider a situation in which reverse biased current of a particular P-N junction increases when it is exposed to a light of wavelength 621 nm. During this process, enhancement in carrier concentration takes place due to generation of hole-electron pairs. The value of band gap is nearly.
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Options:
  • A 2 eV
  • B 4 eV
  • C 1 eV
  • D 0.5 eV
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The correct answer is: 2 eV

Band gap =hcλ0,
where λ0- threshold wavelength

Band gap =1242 ev-nm621 nm=2 eV

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