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What is a tetravalent impurity?

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Tetravalent Impurities consist of 4 valence electrons.. :)

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A tetravalent impurity is when a tetravalent atom is doped to a trivalent impurity, the dopant atom has one less electron than the surrounding atoms of Si or Ge,

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