The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons from a material caused by electromagnetic radiation (light). Electrons emitted in this manner are...

physical phenomenon. The photovoltaic effect is closely related to the photoelectric effect. For both phenomena, light is absorbed, causing excitation of an...

level (e.g. photoelectric effect and Rayleigh scattering), at the nucleus, or with just an electron. Pair production and the Compton effect occur at the...

theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. His work is...

temperatures. The photoelectric work function is the minimum photon energy required to liberate an electron from a substance, in the photoelectric effect. If the...

an electron–hole pair. This mechanism is also known as the inner photoelectric effect. If the absorption occurs in the junction's depletion region, or...

English or Wunderjahr in German). The first paper explained the photoelectric effect, which established the energy of the light quanta E = h f {\displaystyle...

photoelectric effect did not seem to agree with the wave description of light. The "photoelectrons" emitted as a result of the photoelectric effect have...

he did not work with actual X-rays. Hertz helped establish the photoelectric effect (which was later explained by Albert Einstein) when he noticed that...

measurement of electrons emitted from solids, gases or liquids by the photoelectric effect, in order to determine the binding energies of electrons in the substance...

measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. Millikan graduated from Oberlin College in 1891 and obtained his...

as a CCD photometer or a photoelectric photometer that converts light into an electric current by the photoelectric effect. When calibrated against standard...

separate discoveries of the photoelectric effect and of secondary emission. The first demonstration of the photoelectric effect was carried out in 1887 by...

electron lenses and the accelerating field. The photoemission or photoelectric effect is a quantum electronic phenomenon in which electrons (photoelectrons)...

surface-sensitive quantitative spectroscopic technique based on the photoelectric effect that can identify the elements that exist within a material (elemental...

quantum ideas to explain individual phenomena—blackbody radiation, the photoelectric effect, solar emission spectra—an era called the Old or Older quantum theories...

directly into electricity by means of the photovoltaic effect. It is a form of photoelectric cell, a device whose electrical characteristics (such as...

however, more complex materials have been analyzed since then. The photoelectric effect due to the illumination of the metallic surface extracts electrons...

generally termed the photoelectric effect (external gamma rays and ultraviolet rays may also cause this effect). The photoelectric effect should not be confused...

important contributions was the experimental realization of the photoelectric effect. He discovered that the energy (speed) of the electrons ejected from...

of his older brother Maurice and dealt with the features of the photoelectric effect and the properties of x-rays. These publications examined the absorption...

research the photoelectric effect. They showed that photoelectrons appeared within 2 x 10−9 seconds of the photons striking the photoelectric surface—close...

gamma ray interactions is composed of several independent processes: photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, electron-positron pair production in the nucleus...

and frequency in Albert Einstein's 1905 paper, which explained the photoelectric effect. These early attempts to understand microscopic phenomena, now known...

and lower intensity of light and for different metals. This is the photoelectric effect. Lenard showed that amount of current – the number of electrons –...

striking certain materials generates detectable electric current – the photoelectric effect. This discovery laid the foundation for solar cells. Solar cells...

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calculations of its transition probabilities. He calculated the photoelectric effect for hydrogen and X-rays, obtaining the absorption coefficient at...

an integer number of discrete, equal-sized parts. To explain the photoelectric effect, Einstein introduced the idea that light itself is made of discrete...

detectors are typically made of semiconductors. Photoemission or photoelectric effect: Photons cause electrons to transition from the conduction band of...