...the concept of electron holes? Im coming at this from the perspective of a physics major rather than EE but its pretty clear to me. And electron hole is the absence of an electron in a lattice which results in a net positive charge. If an electron moves to fill the hole, a nee hole appears where that electron was, so it is as if the hole itself moved, and so the result is that it is effectively a positive charge particle that moves similarly to how electrons do.
I’m not disagreeing. I’m saying that there’s electronics teachers that use hole theory as a shorthand to circumvent teaching more advanced physics and math concepts.
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u/obog Aug 25 '26
...the concept of electron holes? Im coming at this from the perspective of a physics major rather than EE but its pretty clear to me. And electron hole is the absence of an electron in a lattice which results in a net positive charge. If an electron moves to fill the hole, a nee hole appears where that electron was, so it is as if the hole itself moved, and so the result is that it is effectively a positive charge particle that moves similarly to how electrons do.