Notions of bands and free carriers in solids
Physics of electronic devices
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Notions of bands and free carriers in solids
Physics of electronic devices

Authors : Michel SAVELLI, Daniel GASQUET, Bernard ORSAL

Publication date: June 10, 1996 | Lire en français

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2. Notions of bands and free carriers in solids

2.1 Crystalline systems and crystal bonding

There are two types of solids:

  • the non-crystalline or amorphous solid in which the atoms or groups of atoms are arranged in a highly irregular, almost random manner;

  • the crystalline solid, where the arrangement of atoms or groups of atoms has the same regular order over the entire volume of the solid (monocrystalline solid) or at the level of domains, called crystallites (polycrystalline solid).

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