Explain the effect doping towards an intrinsic silicon. Give one example of donor element and one example of acceptor element. [15 marks] Solution Silicon is an intrinsic semiconductor. The doping is done to introduce impurities into an intrinsic semiconductor for modulating its electrical properties. A semiconductor doped to a very high level can act as a conductor and is generally referred to as degenerate semiconductor There can be two types of impurities ie., donor type and acceptor type. Donor type are n-type semi conductors which will increase the number of unpaired electrons. An example of this is Phosphorus or Arsenic, Antimony, Bismuth Acceptor type are p-type which will increase the number of holes or hole concentration. Examples are Aluminum, Gallium, Boron, Indium. .