Physics of semiconductor materials in high school: possibilities and challenges

• Autor(a) principal: Saldanha de Siqueira, Kleber
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Diversitas Journal
• Texto Completo: https://diversitasjournal.com.br/diversitas_journal/article/view/2529
• topic: Eletrônica; Ensino de Física; Currículo; Educação científica; Electrónica, Enseñanza de la física, Plan de estudios, Enseñanza de las ciencias.; Electronics; Physics Teaching; Curriculum; Science education

The teaching of Science in High School prioritizes the substantive formation of subjects capable of understanding natural phenomena from laws, concepts and precise theoretical formulations. This appropriation of knowledge depends, in addition to the didactic aspects of teaching, on a modern curriculum, which prioritizes the technological advances produced by the different fields of science, contributing to the scientific training of students. Given this context, this article aims to discuss the importance and pedagogical possibilities of teaching the Physics of semiconductor materials in high school, considering the technological impact of these materials on modern society. To this end, a qualitative bibliographical study will be carried out, bringing together scientific works published in the last decade that emphasize the need for a curriculum focused on the Physics of the so-called 'active' components, represented mainly by the semiconductor diode and the transistor, completing the exposition of the study of electrodynamics. in high school. From the reflections of this work we prove the need to include the study of these materials to understand the main technologies present in the daily life of the digital society, making their users critical-reflective subjects of these resources, understanding their genesis, functionality, technical applicability, scope and evolution.