Thanks for all who responded on and off-line. Tom's quote pretty much put the nail in the coffin... Arpad --------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Tom Dagostino [mailto:tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:52 PM To: Muranyi, Arpad; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] Re: si-list Digest V5 #210 From the Handbook of Physics Semiconductors..."At absolute zero the ideal structure is an insulator. = At elevated temperatures, electrons can be thermally excited from the = valence band to the conduction band, giving intrinsic conductivity from equal = number of conduction electrons and holes....." Tom Dagostino Teraspeed Labs 13610 SW Harness Lane Beaverton, OR 97008 503-430-1065 http://www.teraspeed.com tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Teraspeed Consulting Group LLC 121 North River Drive Narragansett, RI 02882 401-284-1827 Teraspeed is the registered service mark of Teraspeed Consulting Group LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu