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PRONUNCIATION OF PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY

photoconductivity  [ˌfəʊtəʊˌkɒndʌkˈtɪvɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY

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Photoconductivity is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Photoconductivity

Photoconductivity is an optical and electrical phenomenon in which a material becomes more electrically conductive due to the absorption of electromagnetic radiation such as visible light, ultraviolet light, infrared light, or gamma radiation. When light is absorbed by a material such as a semiconductor, the number of free electrons and electron holes increases and raises its electrical conductivity. To cause excitation, the light that strikes the semiconductor must have enough energy to raise electrons across the band gap, or to excite the impurities within the band gap. When a bias voltage and a load resistor are used in series with the semiconductor, a voltage drop across the load resistors can be measured when the change in electrical conductivity of the material varies the current flowing through the circuit. Classic examples of photoconductive materials include the conductive polymer polyvinylcarbazole, used extensively in photocopying; lead sulfide, used in infrared detection applications, such as the U.S. Sidewinder and Russian Atoll heat-seeking missiles; and selenium, employed in early television and xerography.

Definition of photoconductivity in the English dictionary

The definition of photoconductivity in the dictionary is the change in the electrical conductivity of certain substances, such as selenium, as a result of the absorption of electromagnetic radiation.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY


activity
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captivity
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conductivity
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connectivity
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creativity
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hyperactivity
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inactivity
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interactivity
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nativity
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negativity
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positivity
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productivity
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radioactivity
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reactivity
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reflectivity
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relativity
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resistivity
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selectivity
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sensitivity
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superconductivity
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY

photochemist
photochemistry
photochromic
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photochronography
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photoconducting
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WORDS THAT END LIKE PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY

absorptivity
adaptivity
additivity
associativity
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diffusivity
electronegativity
exclusivity
expressivity
extravehicular activity
gravity
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subjectivity
thermal conductivity
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Synonyms and antonyms of photoconductivity in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «photoconductivity» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

光电导
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fotoconductividad
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photoconductivity
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photoconductivity
380 millions of speakers
ar

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الضوئية
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Translator English - Russian

фотопроводимость
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fotocondutividade
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photoconductivity
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photoconductivité
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Fotokonduktiviti
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Photoleitfähigkeit
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Translator English - Japanese

光伝導
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광 전도성
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Photoconductivity
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quang dẫn
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photoconductivity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

छायांकनता
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fotoiletkenlik
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fotoconducibilità
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Translator English - Polish

fotoprzewodnictwo
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фотопровідність
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fotoconductie
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photoconductivity
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photoconductivity
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fotokonduktivitet
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photoconductivity
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about photoconductivity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY»

Discover the use of photoconductivity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to photoconductivity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Photoconductivity and related phenomena
Covalent semiconductors. Molecular crystals. Amorphous tetrahedrally bonded solids. Amorphous chalcogenides. Polymeric photoconductors. Non-polar liquids. Photoelectronic semiconductor devices. Electrophotography.
J. Mort, Damodar Mangalore Pai, 1976
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Far Infrared Transmission and Photoconductivity on Single ...
Steffen Holland. magnetic field up to 12 T, if cooled to 1.7 K, up to 14 T. In a second experimental setup we use, instead of a VTI, a vacuum can with He exchange gas. The lowest sample temperature reachable is estimated to ≈ 1.8 K - 2 K.
Steffen Holland, 2004
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Solid State Physics
Photoconductivity* 12.1.1. Basic Concepts When radiation of sufficient quantum energy is absorbed by almost any semiconductor or insulator, an increase of electrical conductivity, called photoconductivity, results. Photoconductors are useful ...
Karl Lark-Horovitz, Marton, Kati, Vivian Annabelle Johnson, 1959
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Springer Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials
involving steady state photoconductivity (SSPC), where the focus is on stationary photocurrent levels, and a second one involving transient effects (TPC) where the time evolution of the photocurrent is studied. We will use this division in our ...
Safa Kasap, Peter Capper, 2007
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Semiconductor Materials
PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY AND PHOTO-EMF Photoconductivity of a substance is the change of its electrical conductivity as a result of absorption of electromagnetic radiation. The absorption of a photon may transfer an electron from the valence ...
Lev I. Berger, 1996
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Transport, Correlation, and Structural Defects
3.2 The influence of tunnel recombinaton on the hopping photoconductivity Photoconductivity is the conductivity change caused by illumination. It is a very wide field of semiconductors physics which covers numerous problems concerning the ...
Hellmut Fritzsche, 1990
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Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells
2.4.5 Photoconductivity We shall now look at the conductivity of an amorphous ( or microcrystalline) silicon layer in the co-planar configuration of Figure 2.16 under illumination, when the densities of free carriers nf and pf are no longer given by ...
Arvind Shah, 2010
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Conjugated Oligomers, Polymers, and Dendrimers : From ...
The carrier generation mechanism in PPV has been addressed by studying the transient photoconductivity and the photoluminescence as a function of the external electric field, E, in samples oriented by tensile drawing. [15] The transient ...
Jean-Luc Brédas, 1999
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Handbook of Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials and ...
Photoconductivity Photoconductivity has also proven to be an important method for providing fundamental information regarding the nature of the photoexcitation in conjugated polymers [1229-1231]. In fact, photoconductivity is a quite complex  ...
Hari Singh Nalwa, 2000
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Recombination Lifetime Measurements in Silicon
Hidehisa Hashizume1, Shingo Sumie2, and Yasuhide Nakai2 CARRIER LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS BY MICROWAVE PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY DECAY METHOD REFERENCE: Hashizume, H., Sumie, S., and Nakai, Y., "Carrier Lifetime ...
Dinesh C. Gupta, Fred R. Bacher, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term photoconductivity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tracing the Chester Carlson Story from Photocopier to TV Set
... position also on the résumé of Albert Einstein), Carlson found what he was looking for in the then little-explored science of photoconductivity. «What They Think, Jul 15»
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Quantum computing: Silicon qubits
As the researchers detected the photoconductivity ΔI of the sample with respect to the delay between the two pulses (τ12), they observed ... «Nature.com, Apr 15»
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Mechanical Televisor the invention that brought us Television
Willoughby Smith discovered the photoconductivity of the element selenium in 1873, laying the groundwork for the selenium cell phototube ... «3D Car Shows, Mar 15»
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Shining a burst of light on melanin interactions
The lead researcher, Adil Haseeb, wants to better understand the conductivity and photoconductivity responses of melanin in different physical ... «Nature Middle East, Mar 15»
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Trion-induced negative photoconductivity in a 2D semiconductor
Single-layer molybdenum disulfide, a strictly 2D semiconductor, exhibits negative photoconductivity caused by the formation of trions under ... «SPIE Newsroom, Jan 15»
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Using FT-IR for In-Situ Monitoring of Polyurethane Synthesis
... a measurement technique which generates an infrared spectrum of emission, absorption, Raman scattering or photoconductivity of a liquid, ... «Azom.com, Dec 14»
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New mechanism of photoconduction could lead to next-generation …
"Although negative photoconductivity has been reported in some semiconducting systems, it always arises from extrinsic factors, such as ... «Phys.Org, Oct 14»
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Light Pulses Control Graphene Behavior
“Our experiment reveals that the cause of photoconductivity in graphene is very different from that in a normal metal or semiconductor,” said MIT ... «Photonics.com, Aug 14»
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Light pulses control graphene's electrical behavior
"Our experiment reveals that the cause of photoconductivity in graphene is very different from that in a normal metal or semiconductor," Frenzel ... «Phys.Org, Jul 14»
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Tweaking Nanomaterials With Lasers
Interestingly, they also found that the electrical conductivity and photoconductivity of the modified material had increased by more than ten ... «Asian Scientist Magazine, Jul 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Photoconductivity [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/photoconductivity>. May 2024 ».
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