On 19/09/06, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Toralf, I have skimmed that and bookmarked to read more closely. > > Getting a bit of an Ah-Ha from that skim, apparently folks are talking > about electrons and holes as if they are the same thing. They definately > are not. A hole is a space that can accept an electron, and if we are > talking about 40K or so holes in the photodiode then that makes sense as > that would be the amount of additional free electrons that the diode can > accept (note that lots of them will bounce around and never find a hole > to fit into). Still in the real world sense the output can not be > considered stepped but a fairly smooth analog curve. Sometimes we try to > apply too much to our understanding of things.
Yes, but I don't know if here is the place to discuss Solid-state technology in detail :-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
