charge carrier is a particle or quasiparticle that is free to move, carrying an electric charge, especially the particles that carry electric charges...

Charge carrier density, also known as carrier concentration, denotes the number of charge carriers per volume. In SI units, it is measured in m−3. As with...

same crystal, a semiconductor junction is created. The behavior of charge carriers, which include electrons, ions, and electron holes, at these junctions...

the net rate of flow of electric charge through a surface.: 2 : 622  The moving particles are called charge carriers, which may be one of several types...

The charge carrier density in a conductor is equal to the number of mobile charge carriers (electrons, ions, etc.) per unit volume. The charge density...

space charge region, or space charge layer, is an insulating region within a conductive, doped semiconductor material where the mobile charge carriers have...

point-like charges. This model typically applies when charge carriers have been emitted from some region of a solid—the cloud of emitted carriers can form...

solid-state physics of semiconductors, carrier generation and carrier recombination are processes by which mobile charge carriers (electrons and electron holes)...

hand. Electric current is the flow of electric charge through an object. The most common charge carriers are the positively charged proton and the negatively...

it contains practically no mobile charge carriers. It is also known as the space charge region, although space charge extends a bit further in both directions...

with other, already established carriers, generally the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC). Local exchange carriers (LECs) are divided into incumbent...

since its value depends on the type, number, and properties of the charge carriers that constitute the current. Wires carrying current in a magnetic field...

affected by these four kinds of processes: charge-carrier generation, charge injection, charge trapping, charge carrier transport. Hundreds of photoconductive...

behavior of charge carriers in N and P-type semiconductor to move heat. Photodiodes All semiconductors are subject to optical charge carrier generation...

independently moving, nearly-free charge carriers, the Seebeck coefficient is negative for negatively charged carriers (such as electrons), and positive...

foreign dopant atoms in the crystal lattice that mainly provide the charge carriers which carry electric current through the crystal. The doping agents...

randomly. Therefore, on average there will be no overall motion of charge carriers in any particular direction over time. However, when an electric field...

holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor, such as a field-effect transistor (FET), uses only one kind of charge carrier. A bipolar...

effect, two-photon absorption and interactions between photons and free charge carriers. The presence of nonlinearity is of fundamental importance, as it enables...

phenomena, light is absorbed, causing excitation of an electron or other charge carrier to a higher-energy state. The main distinction is that the term photoelectric...

the concentration of charge carriers, and assuming that hopping events are independent from each other. Generally, the carrier mobility μ depends on...

transistor may have only one kind of charge carrier in a field-effect transistor, or may have two kinds of charge carriers in bipolar junction transistor devices...

electricity refers generally to the movement of electrons, or other charge carriers, through a conductor in the presence of a potential difference or an...

effective temperature used to model carrier density, not to the overall temperature of the device. Since the charge carriers can become trapped in the gate...

an injection of charge carriers through the first junction from the emitter into the base region, electrons are the charge carriers that are transported...

the crystal lattice, then there is no generated current due to no net charge carrier mobility. However, if some electrons transfer from the valence band...

time it is charged. The anode is formed from charge carriers supplied by the cathode. As such, before charging, the battery consists of a cathode, current...

exposed a carrier-free region of immobile, negatively charged acceptor ions (see doping). If VG is high enough, a high concentration of negative charge carriers...

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they involve single-carrier-type operation. That is, FETs use either electrons (n-channel) or holes (p-channel) as charge carriers in their operation,...