Semiconductor Stocks List

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Semiconductor Stocks Recent News

Date Stock Title
May 3 AXTI Why Apple Shares Are Trading Higher By 6%; Here Are 20 Stocks Moving Premarket
May 2 AXTI AXT Inc (AXTI) Reports First Quarter 2024 Earnings: A Detailed Analysis
May 2 AXTI AXT Non-GAAP EPS of -$0.03 beats by $0.05, revenue of $22.7M beats by $0.95M
May 2 AXTI AXT, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2024 Financial Results
May 2 AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
May 2 AMD Semiconductor Stocks Pop After Fed Meeting And Strong Numbers From This Chip-Maker
May 2 AMD Top 25 Stocks in the S&P 500 by Index Weight Right Now
May 2 APD Air Products to Showcase Decarbonization Solutions for Iron and Steel Production at AISTech2024
May 2 AEIS Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:AEIS) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
May 2 AMD Should You Buy the Dip in Semiconductor Stocks With ETFs?
May 2 AEIS Advanced Energy (AEIS) Q1 Earnings Miss Estimates, Revenues Fall Y/Y
May 2 AMD Better AI Stock: Microsoft vs. AMD
May 2 AMD Employers toggle the deployment of AI for their workforce and customers
May 2 AMD AMD: Uptrend In Danger Of Reversal (Technical Analysis)
May 2 AMD AMD Q1 Earnings: Potential AI Warning Signs (Rating Downgrade)
May 2 AEIS Q1 2024 Advanced Energy Industries Inc Earnings Call
May 2 AEIS Advanced Energy Industries Inc (AEIS) (Q1 2024) Earnings Call Transcript Highlights: Navigating ...
May 2 AEIS Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (AEIS) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
May 1 AMD Dow Jones Futures Rise, Carvana Skyrockets; Stock Market Erases Fed Gains
May 1 AEIS Compared to Estimates, Advanced Energy (AEIS) Q1 Earnings: A Look at Key Metrics
Semiconductor

A semiconductor material has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a metal, like copper, gold, etc. and an insulator, such as glass. Their resistance decreases as their temperature increases, which is behaviour opposite to that of a metal. Their conducting properties may be altered in useful ways by the deliberate, controlled introduction of impurities ("doping") into the crystal structure. Where two differently-doped regions exist in the same crystal, a semiconductor junction is created. The behavior of charge carriers which include electrons, ions and electron holes at these junctions is the basis of diodes, transistors and all modern electronics. Some examples of semiconductors are silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide. After silicon, gallium arsenide is the second most common semiconductor used in laser diodes, solar cells, microwave frequency integrated circuits, and others. Silicon is a critical element for fabricating most electronic circuits.
Semiconductor devices can display a range of useful properties such as passing current more easily in one direction than the other, showing variable resistance, and sensitivity to light or heat. Because the electrical properties of a semiconductor material can be modified by doping, or by the application of electrical fields or light, devices made from semiconductors can be used for amplification, switching, and energy conversion.
The conductivity of silicon is increased by adding a small amount of pentavalent (antimony, phosphorus, or arsenic) or trivalent (boron, gallium, indium) atoms (part in 108). This process is known as doping and resulting semiconductors are known as doped or extrinsic semiconductors. Apart from doping, the conductivity of a semiconductor can equally be improved by increasing its temperature. This is contrary to the behaviour of a metal in which conductivity decreases with increase in temperature.
The modern understanding of the properties of a semiconductor relies on quantum physics to explain the movement of charge carriers in a crystal lattice. Doping greatly increases the number of charge carriers within the crystal. When a doped semiconductor contains mostly free holes it is called "p-type", and when it contains mostly free electrons it is known as "n-type". The semiconductor materials used in electronic devices are doped under precise conditions to control the concentration and regions of p- and n-type dopants. A single semiconductor crystal can have many p- and n-type regions; the p–n junctions between these regions are responsible for the useful electronic behavior.
Although some pure elements and many compounds display semiconductor properties, silicon, germanium, and compounds of gallium are the most widely used in electronic devices. Elements near the so-called "metalloid staircase", where the metalloids are located on the periodic table, are usually used as semiconductors.
Some of the properties of semiconductor materials were observed throughout the mid 19th and first decades of the 20th century. The first practical application of semiconductors in electronics was the 1904 development of the cat's-whisker detector, a primitive semiconductor diode used in early radio receivers. Developments in quantum physics in turn allowed the development of the transistor in 1947 and the integrated circuit in 1958.

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