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charge carrier

British

noun

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.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024

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 • Jan. 10, 2024

Buckeridge explains that you would expect each magnesium atom replacing a gallium atom to donate one extra charge carrier but this simply is not the case.

From Scientific American • Jan. 28, 2015

Continuing their rotation, the positively charged carrier gave up its positive charge by touching a little knob attached to the positive field plate, and similarly for the negative charge carrier.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

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