Semiconductor materials are used in chips because semiconductor materials have good conductive and insulating properties and can freely control the flow of current under different conditions.
The conductive properties of semiconductor materials can be adjusted by doping different kinds of atoms, thus realizing the control of the chip circuit.
At the same time, semiconductor materials also have high stability and reliability, suitable for long-term operation of electronic devices, so it is widely used in the manufacture of chips.
Because the main raw material of the chip is monocrystalline silicon, and the nature of silicon is semiconductor, so people call it semiconductor. A semiconductor is a material whose electrical conductivity at room temperature is between that of a conductor and an insulator. Common semiconductor materials are silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide, etc. Silicon is the most influential one in the application of various semiconductor materials.