シャドーイング練習: What Is A Semiconductor? - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Science!
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Here I have a circuit with a battery, light bulb, and gap.
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If I fill this gap with a metal, the light comes on.
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If I fill this gap with glass, the light stays on.
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You probably already know this because metal is an electric conductor and glass is an insulator.
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But what happens when I fill this gap with a silicon wafer? wafer.
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The light stays off so you might think the silicon is an insulator but what if I heat it up?
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Thank you.
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It lights up.
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The silicon is insulating at room temperature but conducts electricity when it's very hot.
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It's a semiconductor, whose conductivity changes based on the environment.
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This special ability makes semiconductors the perfect brains for electronic devices.
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Circuits of small semiconductor switches,
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called transistors, are at the heart of computer chips and enable them to do math and run programs.
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Semiconductors have enabled electronics to become smaller, faster, and more reliable.
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But what is it exactly about these semiconductors that allow them to either conduct or insulate?
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In a single atom, electrons can occupy specific energy levels.
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When multiple atoms bond, the electrons are shared between them.
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But because the atoms are now interacting,
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the energy levels shift around.
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In a solid, trillions and trillions of atoms interact with each other.
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Their individual energy levels smear into energy bands.
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For a material to conduct,
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the electrons must be able to jump from lower energy states to higher ones.
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The spacing of these energy levels and how they're filled with electrons determines if if the material is a conductor,
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insulator, or semiconductor.
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If there's a huge gap between the lower energy levels and the higher ones,
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it's hard for electrons to jump to the higher ones,
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so current can't flow, and it's an insulator like this glass.
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Metals have no gap at all.
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Electrons can move to the higher energy levels with no problem.
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Current can flow.
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Semiconductors fall somewhere in the middle.
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They have a medium-sized band gap.
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So technically, I can make this glass conduct electricity
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if I added enough energy through heat to push the electrons into a higher band.
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But that amount of heat would either melt or break the glass before it actually conducts.
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This is true of most insulators.
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The amount of energy needed to make them conduct is just too high.
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But in a semiconductor, the band gap is small enough
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that electrons can jump into the higher energy band so that current can flow.
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The amount of heat we apply determines how many electrons jump into the higher band and how much current flows.
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And heat isn't the only way to change the conductivity in a semiconductor.
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We can also use light,
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electric currents, and in a computer, electric fields.
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As I've said, computers are made up of semiconductor switches called transistors that switch between conducting and insulating.
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Computers use electric fields because heat is slow and would burn too much energy.
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We can turn this wafer into a computer chip by printing a circuit of transistors on it using a process called photolithography.
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Here, in the photo room,
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we cover the wafer with a light-sensitive material and expose it to light that we shine through a pattern mask.
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Then, we develop the wafer,
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like film and photography, which leaves behind a pattern that becomes the circuit.
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Printing the transistors at once lets you make circuits that are smaller and cheaper than if you built them from individual parts.
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Transistors make up the logic elements,
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the memory components, and the communication modules that let computers talk to each other.
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With semiconductors, you can cheaply add transistors to almost any device you can think of,
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from spaceships to servers to maybe even your toaster.
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Semiconductors have enabled the technological revolution,
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the internet, the computer, and the cell phone.
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No semiconductors, no information age.
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I'm Jamie and thanks for watching this episode of Science Out Loud.
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Be sure to check out some of our other videos,
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including mine, on how computers compute.
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Check out our website for more information.
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