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charge carrier

noun

  1. an electron, hole, or ion that transports the electric charge in an electric current
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The first predicted the deposited film's performance in terms of the charge carrier lifetime.

An excited electron also leaves a hole in the underlying valence band -- a mobile vacancy that can be moved through the material like a positive charge carrier.

One electrode in the batteries -- the cathode -- has sodium ions as a charge carrier, and the other electrode -- the anode -- consists of hard carbon, which in one of the examples the Chalmers researchers have investigated can be produced from biomass from the forest industry.

In semiconductors, strain can alter the mobility of charge carriers — a property that characterizes how fast a charge carrier, such as an electron, can travel in a crystal subjected to an electric field.

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In this process, the energy generated by the electron–hole merger is transferred to another charge carrier, and a photon is not emitted. c, Won et al.3 demonstrate QDs that are highly efficient light emitters, because Auger recombination is suppressed.

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