Corona discharge the electron-liberation is a high-energy photon from an atom within the plasma body relaxing after excitation from an earlier collision. The use of ionized neutral gas as a source of ionization is further diminished in a negative corona by the high-concentration of positive ions clustering around the curved electrode. Under other conditions, the collision of the positive species with the curved electrode can also cause electron liberation. The difference, then, between positive and negative coronas, in the matter of the generation of secondary electron avalanches, is that in a positive corona they are generated by the gas surrounding the plasma
Depletion region the bulk semiconductor, then a spontaneous depletion region forms if the gate is electrically shorted to the substrate, in much the same manner as described for the p–n junction above. The principle of charge neutrality says the sum of positive charges must equal the sum of negative charges: where "n" and "p" are the number of free electrons and holes, and formula_28 and formula_29 are the number of ionized donors and acceptors "per unit of length", respectively. In this way, both formula_28 and formula_29 can be viewed as doping spacial densities. If we assume full ionization and that formula_32, then: