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  2. Stoletov's law - Wikipedia

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    Stoletov's law (or the first law of photoeffect) for photoelectric effect establishes the direct proportionality between the intensity of electromagnetic radiation acting on a metallic surface and the photocurrent induced by this radiation.

  3. Photoelectric effect - Wikipedia

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    The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons from a material caused by electromagnetic radiation such as ultraviolet light. Electrons emitted in this manner are called photoelectrons. The phenomenon is studied in condensed matter physics, solid state, and quantum chemistry to draw inferences about the properties of atoms, molecules and ...

  4. Aleksandr Stoletov - Wikipedia

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    Built the first solar cell based on the outer photoelectric effect and estimated the response time of the photoelectric current. Discovered the decrease of the solar cell's sensitivity with time (fatigue of solar cells). Other. Calculated the proportion between electrodynamic and electrostatic units, producing a value very close to the speed of ...

  5. Quantization of the electromagnetic field - Wikipedia

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    To explain the photoelectric effect, Albert Einstein assumed heuristically in 1905 that an electromagnetic field consists of particles of energy of amount hν, where h is the Planck constant and ν is the wave frequency.

  6. Photoemission electron microscopy - Wikipedia

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    Photoelectric effect Schematic illustration of the photoemission process. Using Einstein's method, the following equations are used: energy of photon = energy needed to remove an electron + kinetic energy of the emitted electron = + where h is the Planck constant;

  7. Photoemission spectroscopy - Wikipedia

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    The physics behind the PES technique is an application of the photoelectric effect. The sample is exposed to a beam of UV or XUV light inducing photoelectric ionization. The energies of the emitted photoelectrons are characteristic of their original electronic states, and depend also on vibrational state and rotational level.

  8. Solar energy conversion - Wikipedia

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    Operates under the photoelectric effect which results in the emission of electrons. [8] Concentrated solar power (CSP) Uses lenses or mirrors and tracking devices to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Solar power is anticipated to be the world's largest source of electricity by 2050.

  9. Planck postulate - Wikipedia

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    In 1905, Albert Einstein adapted the Planck postulate to explain the photoelectric effect, but Einstein proposed that the energy of photons themselves was quantized (with photon energy given by the Planck–Einstein relation), and that quantization was not merely a feature of microscopic oscillators.