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depletion region

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depletion region
In a transistor, the area where P-type silicon (holes) and N-type silicon (excess electrons) meet. See depletion mode.
depletion region [də′plē·shən ‚rē·jən]
(electronics)
The portion of the channel in a metal oxide field-effect transistor in which there are no charge carriers.


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PN diode has too small depletion region which makes the received optical power must be fairly high to generate sufficient current.
These results clearly show that the "deeper" one goes into the depletion region, the worse (i.
Assuming that this deviation was due to the presence of charged deep-level recombination centers in the depletion region and of opposite polarity from the regular space charge, a value for deep-level states were calculated as 1.
 
 
 
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