ambipolar

[am-bi-poh-ler]

adjective

1. working in two directions simultaneously.

2. Physics, Chemistry.,  pertaining to both positive and negative ions; applied to both positive and negative ions at the same rate.

ambipolar

/ ˌæmbɪˈpəʊlə /

adjective

1. electronics (of plasmas and semiconductors) involving both positive and negative charge carriers

Example Sentences

Flexible black phosphorus ambipolar transistors, circuits and AM demodulator.

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But the new propulsion system — which the team calls the CubeSat Ambipolar Thruster, or CAT — could change all that, turning such bantam spacecraft into interplanetary probes, Longmier and his colleagues say.

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Palacios says that one of the ambipolar transistors he designed can convert a digital signal into a Bluetooth signal that can be sent between, for example, a mobile phone and a wireless headset.

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A single ambipolar graphene transistor, Palacios has shown, can do the job all by itself.

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