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What are semiconductors?

Semiconductors became essential for many electronic appliances as well as for social infrastructure that support our everyday life. Semiconductors play an important role in equipment control in a variety of fields, such as operating air conditioners at a comfortable room temperature, improving automobile safety, laser treatment in cutting-edge medical care and many more. Moreover, the advances of semiconductor technology have driven systems efficiency, miniaturization and energy savings, which in turn help to preserve the global environment in addition to achieving safe and comfortable life and to create prosperous future.
Semiconductors were discovered all the way back in 19th century. In the 1940s, transistors were invented. Radios, which used vacuum tubes until then, were significantly downsized and became portable.
A widely known semiconductor is silicon. Electronic components using semiconductors are called semiconductor devices, including the IC, which is an integrated circuit of transistors. Semiconductor devices mounted inside many electronics appliances are important electronic components that support our everyday live.

Properties of semiconductors Introduces the properties of semiconductors, which possess some specific electrical properties.		Semiconductors in everyday life Introduces the ways semiconductors are used in everyday live.
The semiconductor material silicon Silicon is the most widely used material in semiconductors.		History of semiconductors Introduces the history of semiconductors, which are now used in every corner of our society.
Integrated circuit (IC) Introduces the properties of semiconductors, which possess some specific electrical properties.		Recent list of popular Semiconductor devices Introduces power devices and MEMS.