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Q.

When an impurity is doped into an intrinsic semiconductor, the conductivity of the semiconductor

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a

Increases

b

Decreases

c

Remains the same

d

Becomes zero 

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

The conductivity in an intrinsic semiconductor is due to the thermal motion of bound electrons. But extrinsic semiconductor contains more number of free electrons in case of n-type (and  free holes in p-type) due to which the current flows. Thus conductivity of intrinsic semiconductor is more than that of extrinsic.

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