ambipolar

American  

[am-bi-poh-ler] / ˌæm bɪˈpoʊ lər /

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.

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ambipolar British  

/ ˌæmbɪˈpəʊlə /

adjective

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

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Example Sentences

Flexible black phosphorus ambipolar transistors, circuits and AM demodulator.

From Nature

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.

From Scientific American

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.

From Nature

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

From Nature