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Band Theory and Types of Solids

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Why does pour silican which is an insulator as a semi conductor on heating ?

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The energy gap between the fully filled valence band the conduction band in silicon is not very large, thus on increase in temperature more and more number of electron jump from valence band to conduction band and thus it starts behaving as a conductor.

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