charge carrier

British  

noun

1. an electron, hole, or ion that transports the electric charge in an electric current

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Example Sentences

The first predicted the deposited film's performance in terms of the charge carrier lifetime.

From Science Daily

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.

From Science Daily

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.

From Science Daily

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.

From Nature

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.

From Nature