Biasdependent
Biasdependent refers to the characteristic of a property or response that changes when an external bias, typically an electrical voltage, is applied. The term is used to describe situations where transport, optical, or electronic behaviors are not constant but depend on the magnitude, polarity, or history of the bias. Bias dependence often arises from changes in energy level alignments, carrier distributions, heating, or tunneling probabilities within a device or junction.
In semiconductor devices, current-voltage characteristics are inherently bias-dependent; the conductance, turn-on voltage, and current saturation depend
Measurement and interpretation
Studying bias dependence typically involves systematic bias sweeps while measuring the relevant response, such as current,
The phrase bias-dependent is commonly hyphenated and used across electronics, solid-state physics, and materials science. While
See also: bias, I-V characteristics, nonlinear transport, tunneling, magnetoresistance, bias dependence in photodetection.