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- noun An electron released or ejected from a substance by the photoelectric effect.
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- noun physics An
electron ejected from the surface of a material by thephotoelectric effect
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- noun an electron that is emitted from an atom or molecule by an incident photon
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Examples
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Castleman and his team -- which includes Samuel Peppernick, a former Penn State graduate student who now is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Dasitha Gunaratne, a Penn State graduate student -- used a technique, called photoelectron imaging spectroscopy, to examine similarities between titanium monoxide and nickel, zirconium monoxide and palladium, and tungsten carbide and platinum.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The front of the photoelectron current runs along the anode surface with faster-than-light superluminal speed and provides the in-phase summation of radiation fluxes from elementary sources.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010
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Rosenberg used X-rays from the Advanced Photon Source to bombard chiral molecules adsorbed on a magnetic substrate and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to track changes in the molecular bonds.
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Analysis of arsenic and some other elements in coal fly ash by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy [An article from: Journal of Hazardous Materials] by A. Ohki
A Short Journey: Micrometeorites to Coal Contamination (Article with photographs of both") 2009
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“Well, in some sense we should have expected, if the recent models are correct, to see them on the dark side where the photoelectron abundance is low,” Porco said of the spokes.
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Raman studies, rebuilt a flash photolysis machine and built a microwave spectrometer and started to do photoelectron spectroscopy.
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I started to build up a microwave laboratory to probe unstable molecules and Michael Lappert encouraged me to use his photoelectron spectrometer to carry out work independently.
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"The hypothesis that this Thescelosaurus has a preserved heart was controversial, and therefore, we reexamined it using higher-resolution computed tomography, paleohistological examination, X-ray diffraction analysis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy."
USATODAY.com News 2011
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A lens that enables scientists to use X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to analyze liquid/gas and solid/gas interactions at ambient pressures and should accelerate the development of more efficient catalysts, improve fuel cells and solar cells and provide a greater understanding of the effect of atmospheric pollutants on ozone.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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Molecular frame image restoration and partial wave analysis of photoionization dynamics of NO by time-energy mapping of photoelectron angular distribution.
innovations-report 2010
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