Semiconductors, such as silicon, are the heart of the circuits that form the basis for computers and other electronics. These materials are characterized by a gap in the energy, known as theband gap, between a filled valence band and an empty conduction band.
Given that an atom of a semiconductor has a diameter of 2.04Å , what is the maximum number of moles that fit in the channel of a processor chip that is 64.8nm long, 79.7nm , wide and 355nm thick? Assume that the atoms stack in a simple cubic arrangement.