semiconducting material

Other forms: semiconducting materials

Definitions of semiconducting material

1. noun

   a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities
   synonyms: semiconductor

   types:

   Ge, atomic number 32, germanium

   a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite

   Si, atomic number 14, silicon

   a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors

   type of:

   conductor

   a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat