Giancarlo Báez Mercado: Semi-conductors

Almost all that we see every, such as mechanical and electric need to have material that helps to conduct the energy, the heat, etc. This is the main use for the semi-conductors. There are more efficient calls super-conductors like fabricated metals. The materials engineering study all the materials that are specialized to the use of conductors. We can see the conductors in the chips, computer, and batteries and almost all the semi-conductors are created of silicon. All the new discovery or achievement are computerized and need to have electrical material for it to work, and always will need a conductor.

The principal function of the semi-conductors is to conduct or transport in a right way the energy. Metal are the best semi-conductors that is why almost all the electronic devices have metals because need to have material that receives, conduct and release the energy. Another function of the semi-conductors is the quantity of the heat that can be transfer to the object. This make the semi-conductors very important because some of them have the ability to conduct heat in a regulate way and this doesn’t affect none of the material, doesn’t receives fatigue or damaged. That is why the semi-conductors have large thermoelectric power factors that make them very important in thermoelectric generators.

The materials engineering study the composition, the function, and the electronic configuration to conclude which materials can be used for different problems, investigation or for a new material. In this case they study which material is better to used it in the cars, tv, computer, cell phones, etc. To use correct semi-conductors there need to transfer an exact energy and an exact heat that doesn’t damaged any of the material. This studies helps to use a correct semi-conductors and thus allow us to achieve faster and more efficient technology such as beauty like the LEDS, solar cells, and other extraordinary discover.

One the most important element of the semi-conductor is the silicon. Almost all the semi-conductors are created of silicon. The silicon is the main element for sands and quartz and this is a very common element, easy to find it and is for the nature. The silicon has unique properties in their electron structure because each has four electrons in its outer orbital and this allows them to form crystals. And the four electron forms create a lattice and this is why the silicon is a good material to the semi-conductors.

We can say that with the creation of the semi-conductors the world evolved because thanks of this we have the foundation of the modern electronic. Without semi-conductors we could not have most of the modern day luxuries that we enjoy. The semi-conductor is one of the most important achievements that a human created and helps the world to enjoy a modern world with new car, new entertainment, new extravagant technology that makes the world a new one, and one more time we know that the human being is able to created unbelieving things.