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Re: Holes

At 10:02 PM -0700 11/3/99, Jim Green wrote:
How does a hole differ from a positron? Would they act electrically the
same in a s/c?

There is pretty good reason to believe that Light Emitting Diodes
(LED's) give off a visible photon when an electron and a hole
combine. If it were to be electrons and POSITRONS combining to
produce EM radiation, we would expect to see gamma radiation instead
of visible light.

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