{"id":49909,"date":"2025-08-18T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49909"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:40:22","slug":"electronics-negative-temperature-coefficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/electronics-negative-temperature-coefficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronics: negative temperature coefficient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about electronics: the tutor looks at the resistance of semiconductors relative to change in temperature.<\/h2>\n<p>\nGenerally, semiconductors, such as silicon, lose resistance as temperature increases. This can be noticed as a negative temperature coefficient, since resistance reacts in the opposite direction to temperature.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe reason why a semiconductor&#8217;s resistance decreases with increasing temperature is the promotion of electrons from the bonding state to the conducting one.<\/p>\n<p>\nSuch is my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.libretexts.org\/Bookshelves\/Electricity_and_Magnetism\/Electricity_and_Magnetism_(Tatum)\/04%3A_Batteries_Resistors_and_Ohm's_Law\/4.03%3A_Resistance_and_Temperature\">phys.libretexts.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronics-tutorials.ws\/blog\/negative-temperature-coefficient.html\">electronics-tutorials.ws<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about electronics: the tutor looks at the resistance of semiconductors relative to change in temperature. Generally, semiconductors, such as silicon, lose resistance as temperature increases. This can be noticed as a negative temperature coefficient, since resistance reacts in the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/electronics-negative-temperature-coefficient\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electronics: negative temperature coefficient<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[2183],"class_list":["post-49909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-semiconductors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49910,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49909\/revisions\/49910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}