Test: The Temperature Dependence of PN Characteristics - Electrical Engineering (EE) MCQ

 The charge of the electron is the magnitude of electric force that an electron exerts on other particles which is equal to -1.6*10^-19 C, the negative sign indicates the direction of force.

The forbidden gap voltage of a material is numerically equal to forbidden gap energy of the material which is 1.21 joules for silicon so forbidden gap voltage will be 1.21 V.

 Reverse saturation current at temperature T₂ is 2^{[(T2 –T1)/10]} times greater than reverse saturation current at temperature T₁ where T₂ is greater than T₁.

1N207 is the germanium diode for which the reverse saturation current is not constant which the change in voltage due to the leakage in the surface of the diode and due to the generation of new current carriers.

 As the temperature of the P-N junction increases the current increases and the voltage decreases so the barrier voltage, reverse saturation current, bias current changes with temperature but junction resistance is independent of temperature.

As the temperature to the P-N junction increases the mobility of charges increases thus increases the electron-hole pair which proportionally increases the current in the P-N junction diode.

As the temperature to the P-N junction diode increases the mobility of charges increases thus increasing the current, the reverse saturation current increases by 7% with 10C rise in temperature and doubles with every 100C rise in temperature.

As the temperature to the P-N junction diode increases the voltage across the junction decreases and the current increases with every degree rise in temperature the barrier voltage increases by 2mV.

When the voltage across the junction is zero in the sense there will be potential difference between the junctions hence there will be no movement of electrons and holes, hence the current will be 0.

Breakdown voltage of the diode is inversely proportional to the reverse leakage current so it decreases with the increase in reverse leakage current.