- Acceptors
- Alternating Current
- Amperes (Amps)
- Analog
- Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
- Anode
- Atoms
- Avalanche Breakdown
- Band gap
- Bandwidth
- Battery
- Capacitance
- Capacitor
- Cathode
- Charge
- Charge Carriers
- Comparator
- Conduction band
- Conductor
- Control System
- Coulomb
- Current
- Current source
- Depletion Region (Space Charge Region)
- Differentiator
- Diffusion
- Digital
- Digital Potentiometer
- Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
- Diode
- Diode Q-Point
- Direct Current
- Distortion
- Donors
- Doped
- Drift
- Drift Velocity
- Efficiency
- Electricity
- Electron
- Extrinsic
- Forward Biased
- Free electrons
- High-impedance
- Holes
- Imaginary numbers
- Impedance
- Inductance
- Inductor
- Input Bias Current
- Insulator
- Integrator
- Intrinsic
- Intrinsic semiconductor
- IV Curve (VI Curve)
- Metallurgical Junction
- Mobility
- Molecule
- N-well
- Neutron
- Nucleus
- Offset Voltage
- Ohm's Law
- Open loop
- Operational Amplifiers (Op-amps)
- P-well
- Plant (Control Systems)
- PN Junction
- Potentiometer
- Power Supply
- Proton
- Rail-to-Rail
- Resistance
- Resistivity
- Resistor
- Reverse Biased
- Rheostat
- Semiconductor
- Slew Rate
- Static electricity
- Summing Amplifier
- Trimmer
- Turn-on Voltage
- Undoped
- Valence band
- Volt-amp reactive (VAR)
- Voltage
- Voltage Follower
- Voltage source
- Watt
- Zener Breakdown
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Question, comment or suggestion?Intrinsic
Our Take
The term intrinsic in electronics is used to describe an undoped semiconductor material. In this case, the semiconductor material is in its pure state and doesn't have any impurities added on it to modify its conductivity. An intrinsic semiconductor is neither a good insulator nor a good conductor.
Book Definition
Intrinsic refers to the generic properties of pure materials.
Microelectronic Circuit Design, 4th Edition by Richard C. Jaeger & Travis N. Blalock
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