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n. - Change in the electrical conductivity of a substance as a result of absorbing electromagnetic radiation.

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  • Chester Carlson patented a new dry photographic process (Xerography) based upon principles of photoconductivity and electrostatics.
  • Fellowship at Princeton University for postdoctoral work, at which time he began a study of photoconductivity in willemite crystals.
  • My graduation thesis was devoted to the problem of obtaining the thin films and investigating the photoconductivity of bismuth telluride compounds.
  • Dan dragged me into ultra-fast pulsed laser spectroscopy and into fast-transient photoconductivity as probes of the excited states of semiconducting polymers.
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