dopant

English

Noun

dopant (plural dopants)

  1. A substance added in small amounts to a pure semiconductor material to alter its conductive properties.
    • 1970, James W[alter] Mayer; Lennart Eriksson; John A[rthur] Davies, “General Features of Ion Implantation”, in Ion Implantation in Semiconductors: Silicon and Germanium, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, OCLC 912401876, page 5:
      It should be noted that even though both types of disorder can be annealed at temperatures well below those where diffusion of the dopant species occurs, there are still defects present.

French

Verb

dopant

  1. present participle of doper

Adjective

dopant (feminine singular dopante, masculine plural dopants, feminine plural dopantes)

  1. boosting
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