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majority carrier

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majority carrier
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(Electronics) the entity responsible for carrying the greater part of the current in a semiconductor. In n-type semiconductors the majority carriers are electrons; in p-type semiconductors they are positively charged holes Compare minority carrier
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2] is influenced by the integral coefficient of the majority carriers (holes for pnpn structures and electrons for the npnp structures) injection of junction J1, by the integral transfer coefficient of the minority carriers (holes for pnpn structures and electrons for the npnp structures) through wide base, and by the avalanche multiplication of charge carriers, taking place in the collector junction at relatively high forward voltages.
Comparison of turn-on characteristics of thyristor structures based ... by Rang, Toomas; Vaselo, Aleksandr; Rang, Galina; Pikkov, Mihhail / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Engineering
c](E) for the majority carrier electrons in n-type GaSb then becomes (7) [[rho].
Dependence of electron density on Fermi energy in n-type gallium ... by Hung, Howard / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Substrate Noise Modeler (SNM) analyzes substrate noise injection (both minority and majority carrier injections) and noise coupling to sensitive circuits, which is typically found in power management devices.
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