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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

"Direct imaging to track photocurrent streamlines in quantum optoelectronic devices remains a key challenge in understanding exotic device behavior," Gabor said.

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 attribute these losses to electron-hole recombination before carrier separation and collection as photocurrent and therefore normalize the measured IQE to these values, yielding the purple circles in .

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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