Electronics and Communication Engineering
GATE ECE branch:ec PYQs
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Question 46
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The intrinsic carrier concentration of a semiconductor is 2.5 × 10¹⁶ /m³ at 300 K. If the electron and hole mobilities are 0.15 m²/Vs and 0.05 m²/Vs, respectively, then the intrinsic resistivity of the semiconductor (in kΩ.m) at 300 K is ______.
(Charge of an electron e = 1.6 × 10⁻¹⁹ C.)
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In the circuit shown, the identical transistors Q1 and Q2 are biased in the active region with β = 120. The Zener diode is in the breakdown region with VZ = 5 V and IZ = 25 mA.
If IL = 12 mA and VEB1 = VEB2 = 0.7 V, then the values of R1 and R2 (in kΩ, rounded off to one decimal place) are ______, respectively.

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The electron mobility μₙ in a non-degenerate germanium semiconductor at 300 K is 0.38 m²/Vs.
The electron diffusivity Dₙ at 300 K (in cm²/s, rounded off to the nearest integer) is ______.
(Consider the Boltzmann constant kB = 1.38 × 10⁻²³ J/K and the charge of an electron e = 1.6 × 10⁻¹⁹ C.)
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A square metal sheet of
is placed on the
-
plane as shown in the figure below.If the surface charge density (in
) on the sheet is
, then the total charge (in
, rounded off to the nearest integer) on the sheet is ______.
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An electric field of
is applied along the length of a copper wire of circular cross-section with diameter
. Copper has a conductivity of
.The current (in Amperes, rounded off to two decimal places) flowing through the wire is ______.
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Consider a non-negative function
which is continuous and bounded over the interval
. Let
and
denote, respectively, the maximum and the minimum values of
over the interval.Among the combinations of
and
given below, choose the one(s) for which the inequality
is guaranteed to hold.
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Which of the following statements involving contour integrals (evaluated counter-clockwise) on the unit circle
in the complex plane is/are TRUE?Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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Consider a system where
,
, and
are three internal state signals and
is the input signal. The differential equations governing the system are given by
Which of the following statements is/are TRUE?
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The random variable
takes values in
with probabilities
and
, where
. Let
denote the entropy of
(in bits), parameterized by
. Which of the following statements is/are TRUE?Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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Let
be a periodic signal with fundamental period
. Consider the signal
, where
. The Fourier series expansions of
and
are given by
Which of the following statements is/are TRUE?
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