semiconductor

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ conductor

Noun

semiconductor (plural semiconductors)

1. (physics) A substance with electrical properties intermediate between a good conductor and a good insulator.
   • 1876, Adolphe Ganot, Natural Philosophy for General Readers and Young Persons, page 422:

     In this sense we are to understand the following table in which bodies are classed as conductors, semiconductors, and nonconductors; those bodies being conveniently designated as conductors which, when applied to an electroscope charged with either kind of electricity discharge it almost instantaneously; semiconductors being those which discharge it in a short but measurable time, a few seconds, for instance; while nonconductors effect no discharge even, in the course of a minute.

   • 1901, George W. Jacoby, A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: Electrotherapy:

     The following table of conductors may therefore be used in inverse order as a table of resistances, the good conductors being bodies of slight resistance, the semiconductors being bodies of great resistance, and the insulators being bodies of so great resistance that they almost effectually oppose the passage of any current.

Derived terms

• intrinsic semiconductor
• semiconductor heterostructure
• semiconductor memory

Related terms

• semiconductance
• semiconducting
• semiconduction
• semiconductive
• semiconductivity

 

Translations

substance with electrical properties between conductor and insulator

• Arabic: شَبَه مُوَصِّل m (šabah muwaṣṣil)
• Armenian: կիսահաղորդիչ (hy) (kisahaġordičʻ)
• Basque: erdieroale
• Catalan: semiconductor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 半導體／半导体 (zh) (bàndǎotǐ), 半导体 (zh) (bàndǎotǐ)

• Czech: polovodič (cs) m
• Danish: halvleder (da) c
• Dutch: halfgeleider (nl) m
• Esperanto: duonkonduktaĵo, semikonduktaĵo, duonkonduktanto
• Estonian: pooljuht (et)
• Finnish: puolijohde (fi)
• French: semiconducteur (fr) m
• German: Halbleiter (de) m
• Icelandic: hálfleiðari m
• Irish: leathsheoltóir m
• Italian: semiconduttore (it) m
• Japanese: 半導体 (ja) (はんどうたい, handōtai)
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• Khmer: អង្គធាតុកន្លះចម្លង (ang theat kan las chom long), សឺមីកុងឌុចទ័រ (ser mi kong duch ter)
• Korean: 반도체 (ko) (bandoche)
• Latvian: pusvadītājs m
• Lithuanian: puslaidininkis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: halvleder m

• Polish: półprzewodnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: semicondutor (pt) m
• Romanian: semiconductor (ro) n
• Russian: полупроводни́к (ru) m (poluprovodník)
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-ghiùlanair m
• Serbo-Croatian: poluvòdīč (sh) m
• Spanish: semiconductor (es) m
• Swedish: halvledare (sv) c
• Tagalog: malasaluyan
• Turkish: yarı iletken (tr)
• Vietnamese: chất bán dẫn

See also

• germanium
• silicium
• silicon

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Romanian

Noun

semiconductor n (plural semiconductoare)

1. (physics) semiconductor

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /semikonduɡˈtoɾ/ [se.mi.kõn̪.d̪uɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]

Adjective

semiconductor (feminine semiconductora, masculine plural semiconductores, feminine plural semiconductoras)

1. semiconducting

Noun

semiconductor m (plural semiconductores)

1. (physics) semiconductor