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    The document discusses the objectives and results of an experiment measuring the current-voltage characteristics of a CdS photoresistor. As irradiance increases, photocurrent also increases, causing the photoresistor to behave like an ohmic resistance dependent on irradiance. When light falls on the photoresistor, electrons absorb energy and break atomic bonds, becoming free electrons and holes that carry electric current. As more light and charge carriers are generated, resistance decreases and current increases. Photoresistors are used in devices like streetlights and smoke detectors that require light-sensitive control.

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    The document discusses the objectives and results of an experiment measuring the current-voltage characteristics of a CdS photoresistor. As irradiance increases, photocurrent also increases, causing the photoresistor to behave like an ohmic resistance dependent on irradiance. When light falls on the photoresistor, electrons absorb energy and break atomic bonds, becoming free electrons and holes that carry electric current. As more light and charge carriers are generated, resistance decreases and current increases. Photoresistors are used in devices like streetlights and smoke detectors that require light-sensitive control.

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    The document discusses the objectives and results of an experiment measuring the current-voltage characteristics of a CdS photoresistor. As irradiance increases, photocurrent also increases, causing the photoresistor to behave like an ohmic resistance dependent on irradiance. When light falls on the photoresistor, electrons absorb energy and break atomic bonds, becoming free electrons and holes that carry electric current. As more light and charge carriers are generated, resistance decreases and current increases. Photoresistors are used in devices like streetlights and smoke detectors that require light-sensitive control.

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    The document discusses the objectives and results of an experiment measuring the current-voltage characteristics of a CdS photoresistor. As irradiance increases, photocurrent also increases, causing the photoresistor to behave like an ohmic resistance dependent on irradiance. When light falls on the photoresistor, electrons absorb energy and break atomic bonds, becoming free electrons and holes that carry electric current. As more light and charge carriers are generated, resistance decreases and current increases. Photoresistors are used in devices like streetlights and smoke detectors that require light-sensitive control.

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    The objectives of this experiment are:

     Recording the current-voltage characteristics of a CdS photoresistor


     Measuring the photocurrent IPH as a function of the voltage U at a constant
    irradiance Φ

    As expected, the results from the graph shows that the photocurrent increases with
    increasing irradiance and as a result the CdS photoresistor behaves like an ohmic resistance
    that depends on the irradiance.

    When the light falls on the photoresistor, some of the valence electrons absorbs energy


    from the light and breaks the bonding with the atoms, which are called free electrons.

    When the light energy applied to the photoresistor is highly increased, a large number of
    valence electrons gain enough energy from the photons to breaks the bonding with the
    parent atoms and jumps into the conduction band. When the valence electron left the
    atom, a vacancy is created which is called a hole. Therefore, the free electrons and holes
    are generated as pairs.

    These free electrons and holes will carry electric current, the amount of electric current
    flowing through the photoresistor is depends on the number of charge carriers (free
    electrons and holes).

    When the light energy applied to the photoresistor increases, the number of charge
    carriers also increases. As a result, the electric current flowing through the photoresistor
    increases. Increase in electric current means decrease in resistance. Thus, the resistance of
    the photoresistor decreases when the intensity of applied light increases.

    The phenomenon of photoconductivity occurs when an incident light shown upon a


    semiconductor causes an increase in its electrical conductivity. This is because of excitation
    of electrons across the energy gap into the conduction band, which leads to an increase in
    the number of free carriers in the conduction band, hence, an increase in the conductivity
    of the semiconductor.

    Photoresistors are used in streetlights to control when the light should turn on and when
    the light should turn off. They are also used in various devices such as (smoke detectors,
    camera light meters, proximity switch, infrared astronomy, alarm devices, solar street
    lamps, night-lights, and clock radios.)
    (LDR) is made from a piece of exposed semiconductor material that have high resistance.
    (Such as cadmium sulfide) to enable them to have their light sensitive properties.

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