(physics) A substance with electrical properties intermediate between a good conductor and a good insulator.

plural of semiconductor

Any of various structures consisting of two different semiconductors in junction contact; they have unique electrical and electrooptical properties different from those of the components

Any device used to store and retrieve digital information that is manufactured using integrated circuit technology.

plural of semiconductor memory

plural of semiconductor heterostructure

(physics) An undoped semiconductor. This means that holes in the valence band are vacancies created by electrons that have been thermally excited to the conduction band, as opposed to doped semiconductors where holes or electrons are supplied by a “foreign” atom acting as an impurity.

plural of intrinsic semiconductor