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The impurity atoms with which pure silicon may be doped to make it a p-type semiconductor are those of [more than one option may he correct]

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phosphorus
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boron
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antimony
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D
aluminium
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Solution

The correct options are
B boron
D aluminium
As silicon lies in the group 14 of the modern periodic table thus to convert a pure silicon into a p-type semiconductor, it must be doped with impurity containing atoms which lie in group 13 in modern periodic table such as boron and aluminium.

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