[Amps] Electron HOLE flow

[Mike Waters]

Absolutely it is an illusion. IIRC, that was erroneously introduced into
textbooks around 1970 the same time as the "electricity flows from positive
to negative" nonsense. Whoever came up with the latter never heard of
electron flow in a vacuum tube, among other things.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 03:54:29 -0400, K8RI wrote:
>
> >They still refer to "hole flow" in introductory semiconductors.
>
> REPLY:
>
> "Hole flow" is an illusion, much like the moving lights on a theater
> marquee. If it helps to understand things fine, but holes don't move. It's
> more accurate to say a hole is created in one atom and disappears in
> another. For a brief time while the electron is in motion, there are
> actually two holes.  Neither one "moves".
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
>