Which effect occurs at a semiconductor junction because of mismatched wave functions?

💡 Explanation

A build-up of charge carriers creates a potential barrier, quantum tunnelling enables electrons to traverse this barrier because the electron wave function has a non-zero penetration probability. Therefore, current appears, rather than changes to temperature or the depletion zone itself.

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