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photocurrent

American  
[foh-toh-kur-uhnt, -kuhr-] / ˈfoʊ toʊˌkɜr ənt, -ˌkʌr- /

noun

Physics.
  1. an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.


photocurrent British  
/ ˈfəʊtəʊˌkʌrənt /

noun

  1. an electric current produced by electromagnetic radiation in the photoelectric effect, photovoltaic effect, or photoconductivity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of photocurrent

First recorded in 1910–15; photo- + current

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Thirdly, the ZnO nanoparticles are photoresponsive and generate a photocurrent when exposed to pulsed UV light and a constant voltage.

From Science Daily Mar. 11, 2024

A photocurrent is an electric current induced by the action of light.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2023

Gabor said the team combined laser imaging with novel light-sensitive devices to come up with the first images of photocurrent streamlines through a working device.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2023

We compared photocurrent results to spectroscopic results reported in previous literature in Fig. 3C.

From Science Magazine Dec. 15, 2011

The EQE is a spectrally resolved photocurrent measured under zero external bias and represents the ratio of photocarriers collected by an external circuit to the number of incident photons at a given wavelength.

From Science Magazine Dec. 15, 2011

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