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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Emission of photoelectrons, especially from metallic surfaces.

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  • noun physics the ejection of electrons from the surface of a solid by incident electromagnetic radiation

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  • noun an emission of photoelectrons (especially from a metallic surface)

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Examples

  • This effect is known as photoemission and was explained by Einstein more than hundred years ago.

    Neatorama 2010

  • This effect, known as photoemission, was explained by Albert Einstein more than hundred years ago.

    The Times of India 2010

  • I also predicted the so-called large pseudogap in the cuprates that was eventually discovered by Prof. Shen in photoemission from samples in extreme underdoping.

    Robert B. Laughlin - Autobiography 1999

  • They therefore estimate the influence of the electrons which are not themselves ejected from the atom in the photoemission with an average value.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • Analyze and manipulate the photoemission data measured by ARPES experiments

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • In angle-resolved photoemission experiments and transport studies on a cuprate material that exhibits striped electronic inhomogeneity, scientists for years observed that superconductivity is heavily affected by the nanoscale features and in some respect even optimized.

    innovations-report 2010

  • AR65view is a free and open source program built to analyze and manipulate the photoemission data measured by the ARPES experiments AR65 and WESPHOA.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • Since the discovery of photoemission more than one hundred years ago this has also applied to the question of how quickly a light beam ejects an electron from an atom, because it was clear that the process would in any case be much shorter than even the most accurate methods could measure.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • AR65view is a free and open source program built to analyze and manipulate the photoemission data measured by the ARPES experiments AR65 and WESPHOA.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • Analyze and manipulate the photoemission data measured by ARPES experiments

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

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