Electrical Conduction and Photoconduction
The hole is really an abstraction which gives a convenient way of describing the behavior of the electrons. The behavior of the holes is essentially a shorthand way of describing the behavior of all the electrons.
Willian Shockley
Electrical conduction and photoconduction are essentially governed by the manner of generating charge carriers and their transport in a material. If the carriers are generated by any means other than optical excitation (i.e., if they can be generated in the dark), the conduction is referred to as dark electrical conduction or simply electrical conduction. If the carriers are generated primarily by optical excitation, the conduction is referred to as photoconduction. In ...
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