| Question 1: Although solid-state costs continually drop, disks, tapes, and ________ also continue to improve their cost/performance ratio. | |||
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| Question 2: Current flow can be understood in two forms: as negatively-charged ________, and as positively-charged electron deficiencies called electron holes or just "holes". | |||
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| Question 3: A whisker-like wire was moved around on a solid crystal (such as a ________ crystal) in order to detect a radio signal. | |||
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| Question 4: More recently, the ________ (IC), the light-emitting diode (LED), and the liquid-crystal display (LCD) have evolved as further examples of solid-state devices. | |||
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| Question 5: [2][3] While solid-state can include crystalline, polycrystalline and ________ solids and refer to electrical conductors, insulators and semiconductors, the building material is most often crystalline semiconductor. | |||
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| Question 6: [6] The solid-state device came into its own with the invention of the ________ in 1947. | |||
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| Question 7: Examples of non-solid-state electronic components are vacuum tubes and ________ (CRTs). | |||
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| Question 8: A considerable amount of ________ and quantum-mechanical action takes place within the device. | |||
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| Question 9: Solid-state ________ are those circuits or devices built entirely from solid materials and in which the electrons, or other charge carriers, are confined entirely within the solid material. | |||
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| Question 10: The expression became prevalent in the 1950s and the 1960s, during the transition from vacuum tube technology to semiconductor ________ and transistors. | |||
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