Aluminum and holes

[James McLean <mclean@GENESEO.EDU>]

Oops, in my message moments ago, I forgot a PS.

Larry Woolf wrote:

> Aluminum is an electron conductor, not a hole conductor. It is used to dope
> Si - to make it p-type.


P.S.  Note that the behavior of an element as a dopant is almost
completely unrelated to its behavior in bulk.  The weird things that
happen in solid state physics are generally collective phenomena.

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