 ##  [Photoconductive Effect](/index.php/photoconductive-effect) 

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**Engineering &amp; Applied Technologies Dictionary**

 
Definition

An increase in a material’s electrical conductivity caused by absorption of electromagnetic radiation that generates mobile charge carriers (for example, electron–hole pairs or free electrons), reducing resistivity while illumination persists and altering current under a given applied field.