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Yes you are correct the silicon is "doped" with arsenic, phosphorus or boron usually, at the atomic level

and it is these positive or negatively charged elements that form the electrical "gates" with silicon that make

up the semiconductor transistors and other electrical functions necessary to form the complete what used

to be called circuit boards... these days they are  more usually referred to as semiconductor chips or wafers.


Being at the atomic level and involving minute positive and negative electrical charges this is what makes

the sensors susceptible to damage/malfunction  by external  static charges...


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