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Specialty Definition: EXCITON

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Electrical EngineeringA) an excited state moving through a semiconductor crystal, equivalent to a hole/electron pair acting in concert so that their movement constitutes no charge movement; b) a bound carrier-pair formed by absorption of a photon and re-emitting a photon at recombination. Source: European Union. (references)

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