Where Do Excited Electrons Go?
When an Atom Is in an Excited State, the Electron Can Drop All the Way to the Ground State in One Go, or Stop on the Way in an Intermediate Level. Electrons Do...
When an atom is in an excited state, the electron can drop all the way to the ground state in one go, or stop on the way in an intermediate level. Electrons do not stay in excited states for very long - they soon return to their ground states, emitting a photon with the same energy as the one that was absorbed.
What happens to electrons in excited?
These levels are called energy states. ... When an electron in an atom has absorbed energy it is said to be in an excited state. An excited atom is unstable and tends to rearrange itself to return to its lowest energy state. When this happens, the electrons lose some or all of the excess energy by emitting light.
Do excited electrons move?
Thus, when an electron in it's ground state is excited into the conduction band, the electron does not "move" in any classical sense, of outward radially motion from the nucleus.
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