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    A Photo Resistor

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    A photoresistor, also known as a light dependent resistor (LDR) or cadmium sulfide (CdS) cell, is a resistor whose resistance decreases with increasing light intensity. It is made from a high resistance semiconductor that allows photons to provide enough energy for bound electrons to jump into the conduction band, lowering resistance. Photoresistors can be intrinsic, using its own charge carriers, or extrinsic, using impurities as dopants to provide electrons closer to the conduction band to be triggered by lower energy photons. An example is silicon replaced by phosphorus atoms to provide extra electrons for conduction, making it an extrinsic semiconductor.

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    A photoresistor, also known as a light dependent resistor (LDR) or cadmium sulfide (CdS) cell, is a resistor whose resistance decreases with increasing light intensity. It is made from a high resistance semiconductor that allows photons to provide enough energy for bound electrons to jump into the conduction band, lowering resistance. Photoresistors can be intrinsic, using its own charge carriers, or extrinsic, using impurities as dopants to provide electrons closer to the conduction band to be triggered by lower energy photons. An example is silicon replaced by phosphorus atoms to provide extra electrons for conduction, making it an extrinsic semiconductor.

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    A photoresistor, also known as a light dependent resistor (LDR) or cadmium sulfide (CdS) cell, is a resistor whose resistance decreases with increasing light intensity. It is made from a high resistance semiconductor that allows photons to provide enough energy for bound electrons to jump into the conduction band, lowering resistance. Photoresistors can be intrinsic, using its own charge carriers, or extrinsic, using impurities as dopants to provide electrons closer to the conduction band to be triggered by lower energy photons. An example is silicon replaced by phosphorus atoms to provide extra electrons for conduction, making it an extrinsic semiconductor.

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    A Photo Resistor

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    A photoresistor, also known as a light dependent resistor (LDR) or cadmium sulfide (CdS) cell, is a resistor whose resistance decreases with increasing light intensity. It is made from a high resistance semiconductor that allows photons to provide enough energy for bound electrons to jump into the conduction band, lowering resistance. Photoresistors can be intrinsic, using its own charge carriers, or extrinsic, using impurities as dopants to provide electrons closer to the conduction band to be triggered by lower energy photons. An example is silicon replaced by phosphorus atoms to provide extra electrons for conduction, making it an extrinsic semiconductor.

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    A photoresistor, light dependent resistor (LDR) or cadmium sulfide (CdS) cell is a resistor

    whose resistance decreases with increasing incident light intensity. It can also be referred to as a
    photoconductor.

    A photoresistor is made of a high resistance semiconductor. If light falling on the device is of


    high enough frequency, photons absorbed by the semiconductor give bound electrons enough
    energy to jump into the conduction band. The resulting free electron (and its hole partner)
    conduct electricity, thereby lowering resistance.

    A photoelectric device can be either intrinsic or extrinsic. An intrinsic semiconductor has its own
    charge carriers and is not an efficient semiconductor, e.g. silicon. In intrinsic devices the only
    available electrons are in the valence band, and hence the photon must have enough energy to
    excite the electron across the entire bandgap. Extrinsic devices have impurities, also called
    dopants, added whose ground state energy is closer to the conduction band; since the electrons
    do not have as far to jump, lower energy photons (i.e., longer wavelengths and lower
    frequencies) are sufficient to trigger the device. If a sample of silicon has some of its atoms
    replaced by phosphorus atoms (impurities), there will be extra electrons available for conduction.
    This is an example of an extrinsic semiconductor.

    This is an example of a light sensor circuit :

    When the light level is low the resistance of the LDR is high. This prevents current from flowing
    to the base of the transistors. Consequently the LED does not light.

    However, when light shines onto the LDR its resistance falls and current flows into the base of
    the first transistor and then the second transistor. The LED lights.

    The preset resistor can be turned up or down to increase or decrease resistance, in this way it can
    make the circuit more or less sensitive.

      

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