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  • Feb 23, 2013, 08:51 PM
    Micheal Mondo
    Using energy gap as a photon detector.
    The energy gap in germanium is 0.72eV. When used as a photon detector, roughly how many electrons can be made to jump from the valence to the conduction band by the passage of a 600-keV photon that loses all its energy in this fashion?

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