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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Electrical conductivity affected by exposure to light.
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- noun physics An increase in the
electrical conductivity of a material as a result of incidentelectromagnetic radiation
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- noun change in the electrical conductivity of a substance as a result of absorbing electromagnetic radiation
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Examples
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Dan dragged me into ultra-fast pulsed laser spectroscopy and into fast-transient photoconductivity as probes of the excited states of semiconducting polymers.
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My graduation thesis was devoted to the problem of obtaining the thin films and investigating the photoconductivity of bismuth telluride compounds.
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Chester Carlson patented a new dry photographic process (Xerography) based upon principles of photoconductivity and electrostatics.
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Fellowship at Princeton University for postdoctoral work, at which time he began a study of photoconductivity in willemite crystals.
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Furthermore, the team demonstrated that the magnitude of the photoconductivity of the plasmon-coupled nanoparticles can be tuned independently of the optical characteristics of the molecule, a result that has significant implications for future nanoscale optoelectronic devices.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Furthermore, the team demonstrated that the magnitude of the photoconductivity of the plasmon-coupled nanoparticles can be tuned independently of the optical characteristics of the molecule, a result that has significant implications for future nanoscale optoelectronic devices.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Furthermore, the team demonstrated that the magnitude of the photoconductivity of the plasmon-coupled nanoparticles can be tuned independently of the optical characteristics of the molecule, a result that has significant implications for future nanoscale optoelectronic devices.
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Furthermore, the team demonstrated that the magnitude of the photoconductivity of the plasmon-coupled nanoparticles can be tuned independently of the optical characteristics of the molecule, a result that has significant implications for future nanoscale optoelectronic devices.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Furthermore, the team demonstrated that the magnitude of the photoconductivity of the plasmon-coupled nanoparticles can be tuned independently of the optical characteristics of the molecule, a result that has significant implications for future nanoscale optoelectronic devices.
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Furthermore, the team demonstrated that the magnitude of the photoconductivity of the plasmon-coupled nanoparticles can be tuned independently of the optical characteristics of the molecule, a result that has significant implications for future nanoscale optoelectronic devices.
D Mag - News 2010
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