| ▲ | DecentShoes 5 days ago |
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| ▲ | Cyan488 5 days ago | parent [-] |
| Ben Franklin's coin flip landed the wrong way - nowadays electronics circuits are calculated and drawn assuming movement of positive charges, when in reality it's the negatively charged electrons that flow. |
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| ▲ | cperciva 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Nothing wrong with saying that an absence of electron is moving. Both electrons and electron holes are just excitations in a quantum field anyway... ;-) | | |
| ▲ | mlyons1340 2 days ago | parent [-] | | AFAIK, Electron holes refer to the P-type charge carrier in a semiconductor lattice where the absence of electrons behave similar to electrons in an N-type semiconductor. Benjamin Franklin was not concerned with solid state physics rather he's referring to the charge carrier in a conductor being positive when we later discover that its negative (electrons). When current flows through a conductor its just electrons (not holes) moving from negative to positive. |
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