Intrinsic carrier density

class semiconductor.material.IntrinsicCarrierDensity(**kwargs)[source]

The intrinsic carrier density is the number of carriers that exist the a material at thermal equilibrium. It is impacted by the band gap

The effective intrinsic carrier density refers to a modification of the intrinsic to account for band gap narrowing. This does not calculate those changes.

inputs:
  1. material: (str)
    The elemental name for the material. Defualt (Si)
  2. temp: (float)
    The temperature of the material in Kelvin (300)
  3. author: (str)
    The author of the model to be used
check_models(Plot=True)[source]

Displays a plot of all the models against experimental data

update(**kwargs)[source]

a function to update the intrinsic BandGap

inputs:
temperature: (optional)
in kelvin
author: (optional)
the author used. If not provided the last provided author is used If no author has been provided, Couderc’s model is used
output:
The intrinsic carrier concentration in cm-3. Note this is not the effective intrinsic carrier concentration