conduction band

English

Noun

conduction band (plural conduction bands)

  1. (physics) The range of electron energies in an insulator or semiconductor in which electrons can move freely and transport charge.
    • 2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 160:
      In a semiconductor material like silicon, something very interesting happens because the current is not only carried by electrons in the conduction band.

Translations

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.