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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

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  • noun Any electric current that flows as a result of photoconductivity or the photovoltaic effect

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Examples

  • The radial geometry array also, as photocurrent and optical transmission measurements by Yang and Garrett revealed, greatly improves light trapping.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

  • Unfortunately, as expected, they quickly succumbed to light-driven damage; within five hours, the level of the photocurrent dropped to half its peak value.

    Ars Technica 2010

  • The radial geometry array also, as photocurrent and optical transmission measurements by Yang and Garrett revealed, greatly improves light trapping.

    D Mag - News 2010

  • 'The biggest limitation for conventional silicon is that it is blind in the infrared region of the spectrum and so this light available from the sun is not converted to photocurrent.

    Latest Articles Chemistry World 2010

  • When exposed to light of the appropriate wavelength, a photocurrent was produced by the device.

    Ars Technica 2010

  • From comparative measurements of samples with Rhodamine B and CdSe/ZnS QDs it is established that PbS LSCs generate nearly twice the photocurrent in silicon cells than the other materials, achieving an integrated optical efficiency of 12.6%.

    Next Big Future 2010

  • The authors simply added a bit of detergent to the solution, and its ability to generate a photocurrent plunged, suggesting the detergent had disrupted photosystem II.

    Ars Technica 2010

  • Creating tailored nanorod structures for hydrogen production from solar water splitting that maximize solar absorption and increase the ability to utilize the photocurrent using less expensive catalyst materials.

    Green Car Congress 2009

  • "The photocurrent density of plasma treated material was approximately 80 percent higher than that of the control electrodes."

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  • In this cross-section of an organic photovoltaic cell, light passes through the upper layers (from top down, glass, indium tin dioxide, and thermoplastic) and generates a photocurrent in the polymer-fullerene layer.

    R&D Mag - News 2009

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