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electron avalanche

process in which a number of free electrons in a transmission medium are subjected to strong acceleration by an electric field and subsequently collide with other atoms of the medium, thereby ionizing them (impact ionization)
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electron avalanche

Summary

electron avalanche ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • electron avalanche's subclass of is recorded as electrical breakdown[2].
  • electron avalanche's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07p4fh[3].
  • electron avalanche's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2127936[4].
  • electron avalanche's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 207634928[5].
  • electron avalanche's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C207634928[6].

Why It Matters

electron avalanche ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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