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The impurity to be mixed in pure Germanium in order to make it a ptype semiconductor is________

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Phosphorus
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Antimony
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Aluminium
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Arsenic
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Solution

The correct option is C Aluminium
p-type semiconductor has holes as the majority charge carriers. Thus when a pure Germanium semiconductor is doped with the impurity of trivalent elements like Aluminium or Boron, it gets converted into a p-type semiconductor.

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