Drift current is the electric current, or movement of charge carriers, which is due to an electric field applied to a circuit, or may be considered as due to a electromotive force over a certain distance. When an electric field that is a potential difference applied across a semiconductor material, the drift current is produced due to flow of charge carriers. The drift velocity is the average velocity of the charge carriers present in the drift current.  If an electric field is applied to an electron (−) existing in a free space, it will accelerate the electron in a straight line from the negative(−) terminal to the positive terminal(+) of the applied voltage source. But the same thing does not happen in the case of electrons available in good conductors ,that is in metals like copper, aluminium etc. Because good conductors have huge numbers of free electrons moving randomly & this random movement of electrons will drift according to the direction of applied elec...