Charge carrier
Free-moving particle which carries an electric charge / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In physics, a charge carrier is a particle or quasiparticle that is free to move, carrying an electric charge, especially the particles that carry electric charges in electrical conductors.[1] Examples are electrons, ions and holes. The term is used most commonly in solid state physics.[2] In a conducting medium, an electric field can exert force on these free particles, causing a net motion of the particles through the medium; this is what constitutes an electric current.[3] The electron and the proton are the elementary charge carriers, each carrying one elementary charge (e), of the same magnitude and opposite sign.
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