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Calculate the radioactive minority carrier lifetime in gallium arsenide when the minority carriers are electrons injected into a p-type semiconductor region which has a hole concentration of 10¹⁸ cm⁻³. The recombination coefficient for gallium arsenide is 7.21*10⁻¹⁰ cm³s⁻¹.

a.

2 ns

b.

1.39 ns

c.

1.56 ns

d.

2.12 ms

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Answer: (b).1.39 ns

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