"One of the remarkable and dramatic developments in recent years has been the application of solid state science to technical developments in electrical devices such as transistors. The study of semiconductors led to the discovery of their useful properties and to a large number of practical applications. ... The semiconductor substances in most common use today are silicon and germanium. These elements crystallize in the diamond lattice, a kind of cubic structure in which the atoms have tetrahedral bonding with their four nearest neighbors. They are insulators at very low temperatures—near absolute zero—although they do conduct electricity somewhat at room temperature. ... somehow put an extra electron into a crystal of silicon or germanium which is at a low temperature ... The electron will be able to wander around in the crystal jumping from one atomic site to the next. Actually, we have looked only at the behavior of electrons in a rectangular lattice, and the equations would be somewhat different for the real lattice of silicon or germanium. All of the essential points are, however, illustrated by the results for the rectangular lattice."
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Richard Feynman: (1965). 14–1. Electrons and holes in semiconductors in Chapter 14. Semiconductors, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III, Quantum Mechanics
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