The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons from a material caused by electromagnetic radiation such as ultraviolet light. Electrons emitted...

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. Born in the...

his annus mirabilis (miracle year). The first paper explained the photoelectric effect, which established the energy of the light quanta E = h f {\displaystyle...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

irradiating a material with a beam of X-rays. XPS is based on the photoelectric effect that can identify the elements that exist within a material (elemental...

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

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

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...

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

velocity of these electrons did not depend on intensity. This is the photoelectric effect. The continuous wave theories of the time predicted that more light...

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

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

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

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

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

photodiode, which in general are semiconductor diodes that exploit the photoelectric effect to convert light into electricity. APDs use materials and a structure...

instead, the dominant process generating secondary electrons is the photoelectric effect, from the surface of the electrode itself. The work function of the...

frequency and also explained an unpublished law of Stokes and the photoelectric effect. This published postulate was specifically cited by the Nobel Prize...

"quanta of electricity" (electrons), was used in a 1902 article on the photoelectric effect by Philipp Lenard, who credited Hermann von Helmholtz for using the...