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In a p-type semiconductor, which carriers are the majority carriers?

AThe hadrons
BThe holes
CThe halides
DThe helions
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. The holes
1. A trivalent dopant creates a vacancy in the bonding. 2. Those vacancies greatly outnumber the free electrons. 3. For such a material, the holes are the majority carriers and electrons are minority carriers. 4. So the answer is the holes. _Source: syllabus Physics Part II, Ch 14 'Semiconductor Electronics'_
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