pn-junction current practice problems
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A uniformly doped silicon p-n junction has n-type doping of 9.0e+17 cm^-3 and p-type doping of 5.0e+16 cm^-3.

The width of the n-type quasi-neutral region is 5 μm, and the width of the p-type quasi-neutral region is 5 μm.

The diode area is 300 μm x 300 μm.

The applied voltage is 0.5 V.

Calculate the diode current at room temperature:

Note: For silicon,

• the intrinsic carrier concentration is n_i = 6.000e+9 cm^-3
• the electron diffusion coefficient is 35 cm²/s, and
• the hole diffusion coefficient is 10 cm²/s.

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