p-type
Britishadjective
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(of a semiconductor) having a density of mobile holes in excess of that of conduction electrons
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associated with or resulting from the movement of holes in a semiconductor Compare n-type
p-type conductivity
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Made of material, usually a semiconductor such as silicon, that has been doped with impurities so that it has an excess of electron holes.
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Compare N-type
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In a paper published Thursday, May 16, in the journal Science, researchers from the University of Houston and Rice University report a new approach to predict the realization of band convergence in a series of materials and, after demonstrating that one so-designed material, a p-type Zintl compound, would offer highly efficient thermoelectric performance, fabricated a thermoelectric module.
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Research progress on p-type amorphous semiconductors has been notably sluggish.
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Achieving high-performance amorphous p-type oxide semiconductor devices has long been regarded as a near-impossible challenge, with academia facing two decades of unsuccessful attempts.
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This phenomenon arises from the creation of an acceptor level capable of accommodating electrons in the absence of sufficient oxygen, thereby enabling the material to function as a p-type semiconductor.
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This led to increased solubility of the intermediates and facilitated the synthesis of two-dimensional polymers with higher degree of polymerization and fewer defects, resulting in outstanding electrical conductivity after p-type doping.
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