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Optics & Photonics News (blog)
November 9, 2017
The PMT is based on Einstein's photoelectric effect, coupled with secondary electron emission; the result is an extremely low-light detector with ...
Times Now
November 6, 2017
Photoelectric effect; Bohr's theory of hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley's law; de Broglie wavelength of matter ...
Salon
November 6, 2017
The photoelectric effect was a bit of a burden on the venerated Maxwell theory of light. When light is shined on certain types of metals, electrons ...
Newswire
October 26, 2017
... the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
IEEE Spectrum
October 24, 2017
The proposed Einstein-Bucky camera used the photoelectric effect to automatically adjust the exposure of the film in a camera depending on ...
Newsweek
October 24, 2017
The law of the photoelectric effect proposed that light is both a wave and a particle, an understanding that soon became fundamental to ...
OUPblog (blog)
October 22, 2017
... invoked it in 1905, when he successfully explained the photoelectric effect, wherein radiation incident on a metal can eject electrons from it.
MilTech
October 14, 2017
PV cells can be combined in collector panels which convert solar energy into electrical energy through the photoelectric effect. Commercially ...
Digital Journal
October 13, 2017
PV cells can be combined in collector panels which convert solar energy into electrical energy through the photoelectric effect. Commercially ...
PhysicsCentral.com (blog)
October 9, 2017
When a photon is absorbed by a bound electron, the electron gets a boost in momentum, the so-called Einstein photoelectric effect. In the ...
ABC Online
October 6, 2017
Think Marie Curie and her husband for discovering radioactivity, or Albert Einstein for finding the cause of the photoelectric effect. These days ...
Science News (blog)
October 1, 2017
This was, he reasoned, the only way you could get ionizing Sunlight to knock electrons loose from impacted metal (the photoelectric effect).
Nanowerk (blog)
September 23, 2017
Albert Einstein received his Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect: light transfers energy to electrons in the form of energy packets ...
International Business Times
September 22, 2017
He won it for his work in theoretical Physics, primarily for explaining the problem known as 'the photoelectric effect.' This problem had been ...
Inside Science News Service
August 3, 2017
And a strong advocate for peace. Einstein revolutionized physics and science with his general theory of relativity, his photoelectric effect theory, ...
Live Science
April 24, 2017
The photoelectric effect refers to what happens when electrons are emitted from a material that has absorbed electromagnetic radiation.
The Market Oracle
September 17, 2017
Einstein also developed the theory of photoelectric effect. Going down in scale to the workings of atoms, Einstein found another world ofÃÂ ...
Science News Magazine (blog)
September 6, 2017
Michelson-Morley, the ultraviolet catastrophe, Mercury's procession, the photoelectric effect for them, and the missing dark matter and theÃÂ ...
Lab News
September 5, 2017
Their existence first became apparent in physics when Einstein observed that the photoelectric effect could only make sense if theÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
August 20, 2017
Photoelectron spectroscopy refers to energy measurement of electrons emitted from solids, gases or liquids by the photoelectric effect; theÃÂ ...
Mashable
August 20, 2017
... the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
Swarajya
August 19, 2017
... impertinent patent office clerk by the name of Einstein who had explained, in one go, Brownian motion, photoelectric effect, special theory ofÃÂ ...
ExtremeTech
August 7, 2017
actually it was on the photoelectric effect... again not what he was famous for. However, his work on Brownian motion was also important.
DailyNewsKs
August 4, 2017
... APD Avalanche Photodiode (APD) is a highly sensitive semiconductor electronic device that exploits the photoelectric effect to convert light toÃÂ ...
Mental Floss
August 4, 2017
It's called the photoelectric effect, and it was first discovered in the 1800s. Scientists learned that photovoltaic (PV) cells made of selenium wereÃÂ ...
Anglican Journal
August 3, 2017
References to such concepts as “probabilities in quantum mechanics,” “wave particle duality,” photoelectric effect,” “quanta” and “gaugeÃÂ ...
Inside Science News Service
August 3, 2017
Einstein's photoelectric effect theory describes light as composed of discrete quanta -- now known as a photon -- rather than a continuous waveÃÂ ...
Ars Technica
July 28, 2017
Instead, it came for yet another paper published in the same year, this one on the photoelectric effect. Inadvertently, its publication started theÃÂ ...
All About Circuits
July 17, 2017
There, one or many incoming photons would arrive at a photocathode and (through the photoelectric effect) cause one or many electrons to beÃÂ ...
Live Science
April 24, 2017
The photoelectric effect refers to what happens when electrons are emitted from a material that has absorbed electromagnetic radiation.
Machine Design
December 31, 1999
In 1922, he got a Nobel Prize for the first of his “Annus Mirabilis” papers that described the photoelectric effect. That paper would become theÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
December 31, 1999
Low-Concentration Photovoltaic cell converts the solar energy into direct current which is used in semiconductor materials. A photovoltaicÃÂ ...
MilTech
March 24, 2017
The various low-concentration photovoltaic process includes photoelectric effect, and electro chemical process. The low concentrated photovoltaic offers many advantages than the high concentrated photovoltaic cell such as they require only single axisÃÂ ...
Science Magazine
March 23, 2017
Astronomers have just spied a black hole with a mass 1 billion times the sun's hurtling toward our galaxy. But scientists aren't worried about it making contact: It's some 8 billion light-years away from Earth and traveling at less than 1% the speed of ...
AZoCleantech
March 22, 2017
Solar cells are photovoltaic cells that convert the sun's energy into electricity through what is termed the "photoelectric effect." This effect describes the ability of matter to emit electrons when light energy in the form of photons is supplied to ...
WhaTech
March 15, 2017
APD Avalanche Photodiode (APD) is a highly sensitive semiconductor electronic device that exploits the photoelectric effect to convert light to electricity. APDs can be thought of as photodetectors that provide a built-in first stage of gain through ...
Heavy.com
March 14, 2017
In 1921, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, specifically for his discovery of the law of the Photoelectric Effect. In a 2012 interview with Gourmet, Pi Day creator Larry Shaw said the fact that Einstein's birthday is also March 14 didn't even ...
Raw Story
March 14, 2017
He developed the theory of general relativity and advanced the law of photoelectric effect. His work earned him a Nobel Prize in 1921, and in 1999, the Time magazine named him "Person of the Century.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
March 14, 2017
ON THIS DAY IN 1951, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled "Four Accused of Dope Sales Taken in Trap." The article focused on four people who were arrested after trying to sell an undercover police officer drugs in Williamsburg.
National Geographic Australia
March 13, 2017
My headline may be a bit misleading. Albert Einstein, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who gave the world the theory of relativity, E = mc2, and the law of the photoelectric effect, obviously had a special brain. So special that when he died in ...
National Geographic Australia
March 2, 2017
Philipp Lenard (1862-1947) was a German experimental physicist who advanced the study of X-ray tubes, the photoelectric effect and atomic theory. His results led him to propose (correctly) that most of the atom is composed of empty space. Lenard was aÃÂ ...
ZDNet
February 28, 2017
The technique uses the photoelectric effect to directly measure the momentum of electrons within each layer and shows how this changes when the layers are combined.
The Hindu
February 13, 2017
The American experimental physicist was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. More In. Related Articles. << Previous Story. Next Story >>.
Movie News Guide
February 6, 2017
His greatest achievements include mass-energy equivalence and law of the photoelectric effect. Einstein died at the age of 76 years due to internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Medgadget (blog)
February 6, 2017
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy uses photoelectric effect created by x-rays. X-rays converge on the sample surface and the energy distributed by the electrons ejected from the sample surface is probed, a process known as irradiation.
The Guardian
February 5, 2017
Everyone ignored Planck - presumably because they couldn't understand him - until Einstein realised that, in a photoelectric effect, high intensity light did not result in electrons being knocked free with more energy, just more electrons being knocked ...
IEEE Spectrum
February 2, 2017
Light falling on the pixel converts to charge by the photoelectric effect. The charge accumulates in the well and is then pushed from well to well until it reaches circuitry that measures the amount of charge and produces a digital representation of it ...
Ricochet.com
January 7, 2017
In 1905, in his capacity as editor of Annalen der Physik , he read and approved the publication of Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect, which explained another physics puzzle by assuming that light was actually emitted in discrete bundles with ...
NAIJ.COM
November 8, 2016
The discovery of photoelectric effect also provided knowledge of photocells. You can see these photocells in modern solar panels; It's one of the new green ways to make electricity on the commercial basis.
Medgadget (blog)
November 8, 2016
XPS (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) is also known as ESCA (Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis) technique uses photoelectric effect created by x-rays and analyzes the electronic environment, surface composition, and atomic composition of theÃÂ ...
