dopant
English
Noun
dopant (plural dopants)
- A substance added in small amounts to a pure semiconductor material to alter its conductive properties.
- 1970, James W[alter] Mayer, Lennart Eriksson, John A[rthur] Davies, “General Features of Ion Implantation”, in Ion Implantation in Semiconductors: Silicon and Germanium, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 5:
- It should be noted that even though both types of disorder can be annealed at temperatures well below those where diffusion of the dopant species occurs, there are still defects present.
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Verb
dopant
Adjective
dopant (feminine dopante, masculine plural dopants, feminine plural dopantes)