{"id":340,"date":"2022-11-10T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/?p=340"},"modified":"2022-11-10T13:09:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:09:26","slug":"holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"simpletoc-title\">Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"simpletoc-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#holes\">Holes:<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#characteristics-of-holes\">Characteristics of holes:<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"holes\">Holes:<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>The vacancy or absence of an electron in the bond of a covalently bonded crystal is called a hole. In terms of band theory, whenever an electron is removed from the completely filled valence band of a semiconductor, a vacancy is left behind in the valence band. This vacancy serves as a positive charge carrier and is called a hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hole is not a physical entity. A hole is a convenient way of describing charge motion, though the motion can be described entirely in terms of electrons.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"characteristics-of-holes\">Characteristics of holes:<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>1. A hole is just a vacancy created by the removal of an electron from a covalent bond of semiconductor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. It has the same mass as the (removed) electron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. It is associated with a positive charge of magnitude e. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. The energy of a hole is higher, the farther below it is from the top of the valence band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holes: The vacancy or absence of an electron in the bond of a covalently bonded crystal is called a hole. In terms of band theory, whenever an electron is removed from the completely filled valence band of a semiconductor, a vacancy is left behind in the valence band. This vacancy serves as a positive charge &#8230; <a title=\"Holes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/holes\/\" aria-label=\"More on Holes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}