wolfric
Newbie level 1
Transistors
I was searching for an electronics forum and found this place but even the elementary questions don't seem that elementary to me so bare with me if this is rather simplistic.
I was looking over a video on how transistors are made. When you dope semiconductors with impurities, you create either a surplus or shortage of electrons which depending on the type, attract electrons or (allow them to be attracted to other elements?). However if you had a shortage, When electrons flow through the material, wouldn't they simply just fill up all the wholes and then the material would become stable and not conduct electricity? and vice versa with the material loosing the additional electrons.
Or is it that with impurities, you're providing elements with an unstable shell that the electrons are more free to move?
I was searching for an electronics forum and found this place but even the elementary questions don't seem that elementary to me so bare with me if this is rather simplistic.
I was looking over a video on how transistors are made. When you dope semiconductors with impurities, you create either a surplus or shortage of electrons which depending on the type, attract electrons or (allow them to be attracted to other elements?). However if you had a shortage, When electrons flow through the material, wouldn't they simply just fill up all the wholes and then the material would become stable and not conduct electricity? and vice versa with the material loosing the additional electrons.
Or is it that with impurities, you're providing elements with an unstable shell that the electrons are more free to move?