# 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)

**Wikidata**: [Q175921](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175921)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_avalanche)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/electron-avalanche


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)