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Q. The dominant mechanism for motion of charge carriers in forward and reverse biased silicon $p-n$ junction are

Semiconductor Electronics: Materials Devices and Simple Circuits

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In $p-n$ junction, the diffusion of majority carriers takes place when junction is forward biased and drifting of minority carriers takes place across the junction, when it is reverse biased.