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Minority carriers in a $p$-type semiconductor are
PhysicsSemiconductorsKCETKCET 2007
Options:
  • A free electrons
  • B holes
  • C neither holes nor free electrons
  • D both holes and free electrons
Solution:
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The correct answer is: free electrons
In $p$-type semiconductor dencity of mobile holes exceeds that of conduction electrons. Hence,
minority carriers in $p$-type semiconductor are conduction (free) electrons

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