Basic Electrical and Electronics Engineering: Unit III: Analog Electronics

Energy Levels

Semiconductor

Each orbit has fixed amount of energy associated with it and the electrons moving in a particular orbit acquire the energy of that orbit.

ENERGY LEVELS

Each orbit has fixed amount of energy associated with it and the electrons moving in a particular orbit acquire the energy of that orbit. Hence electrons in the outer orbit have more energy than electrons in the inner orbit.

Figure 3.5.(b)shows representation of energy level of various orbits. This is known as energy level diagram. The first orbit r1 represents the first energy level, the second orbit r2 indicates the second energy level and so on. The outer orbit of an electron, the greater is its energy and higher is the energy level.


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