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Definition of "Hot Carrier" |
A carrier, which may be either a hole or an electron, that has relatively high energy with respect to the carriers normally found in majority-carrier devices. / The term hot carrier refers to either holes or electrons also referred to as 'hot electrons that have gained very high kinetic energy after being accelerated by a strong electric field in areas of high field intensities within a semiconductor especially MOS device.Because of their high kinetic energy, hot carriers can get injected and trapped in areas of the device where they shouldn't be, forming a space charge that causes the device to degrade or become unstable. The term 'hot carrier effects', therefore, refers to device degradation or instability caused by hot carrier injection. / In electrochemistry, the Nernst equation is an equation that relates the reduction potential of a half-cell or the total electromotive force of the full cell at any point in time to the standard electrode potential, temperature, activity, and reaction quotient of the underlying reactions and species used. |
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