photogating

English

Etymology

From photo- +‎ gating.

Noun

photogating

1. (physics) gating controlled by light
   • 2015, Joshua O. Island, Sofya I. Blanter, Michele Buscema, Herre S.J. van der Zant, Andres Castellanos-Gomez, “Gate controlled photocurrent generation mechanisms in high-gain In2Se3 phototransistors”, in Nano Letters‎^[1], volume 2015:

     Furthermore, due to the strong photogating effect, these direct-band gap, multi-layer phototransistors produce ultra-high gains of (9.8 +- 2.5) x 10^4 A/W and inferred detectivities of (3.3 +- 0.8) x 10^13 Jones, putting In2Se3 amongst the most sensitive 2D materials for photodetection studied to date..