Term · General Industry
p-type
Semiconductor doped with acceptor atoms so that holes are the majority carriers and electrons the minority. It forms the source and drain of PMOS devices and the complementary side of a junction.
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- P-type, p-doped
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- General Industry, Device physics
Notes
PMOS is intrinsically slower than NMOS because hole mobility is roughly a third of electron mobility in silicon.
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